A rough analogy is when the oil in your car's engine is dirty and needs changing, it gets blackened, thick and sludgy. Thickened bile can't flow well. Since your intestines REQUIRE bile to stimulate movement, poor bile flow causes lack of peristalsis, which equals constipation.
A water molecule measure approximately 2.75 angstroms, making it one of the smallest of all molecules. One meter is 10 billion angstroms. The water molecule is shaped like a V, with two atoms of hydrogen extending at an angle of around 104 degrees from an atom of oxygen. Continue Reading.
Word Origin and History for angstrom Expand. n. unit of length equal to one hundred millionth of a centimeter (used to measure wavelengths of light), 1892, named for Swedish physicist Anders ÃngstrÃ¶m (1814-1874).