For tungsten, this will be of the form of either a hairpin-style filament, or a small spike-shaped filament.
They wre trying to detect small swiftly changing filaments and other features believed to be shaped by the Sun's magnetic field.
The first antennae (antennules) are small, slender filaments on the ventral surface of the head, at about the same level as the eyes.
The resulting beam included small "filaments" of extremely high light intensity, so high it would damage the glass optics of the device.
The small male filaments are likely to be attached to a female filament, near an oogonium.
Capillary action moves moisture from larger filaments to smaller filaments without passing through the air.
Instead, he pulled in just the smallest filament of their power, draining the light above him at their unspoken consent.
They live today with the broad end buried in the sediment, where they forage for food using small prehensile filaments.
Even the mechanism was out-of-date: most artificials now used invisibly small filaments in their sensory arrays, or energy fields erected on the fly.
Within the sarcoplasm are many perpendicular myofibrils composed of smaller filaments called myofilaments.