File:Saliva Thread.jpg
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English: Human saliva is an aqueous solution of mucin proteins. These high molecular weight protein chains make our saliva sticky and resistant to capillary break up. You can fish out a sample out of your mouth and stretch it between your thumb and forefinger. As the liquid bridge thins down a slender thread emerges and smaller satellite droplets start to appear on this slender thread. This “beads on a string” structure can sometimes stay in the air for minutes. |
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| Author | Bavand Keshavarz |
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| current | 00:16, 16 December 2021 | | 2,224 × 3,925 (3.02 MB) | wikimediacommons>BavandK | Uploaded own work with UploadWizard |
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