Meaning of microcannon | Babel Free

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A microscopic cannon, typically used to inject medicine into a body.

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“The microcannon starts with a membranous polymer film. […] PFC vaporizes when hit with an ultrasound pulse, producing rapidly expanding gas bubbles that "fire" the nanobullets out of the microcannons at speeds on the order of meters per second -- and the fluorescent microbullets light up to show exactly where they landed in the tissue target.”

“A battery of several microcannons can be used to fire the drug cargoes at different times and different depths.”

“The microcannon was seen moving at about a micron per second, it was about 15 microns long, and the high speed photograph was done in water (density of 1 kg/L, viscosity of about 0.001 pascal seconds).”

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