Sentences with phrase «tiny air bubbles form»

Tiny air bubbles form in the ocean when waves break, then rise to the surface and burst, releasing gases and aerosols into the atmosphere.

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You can identify volcanic basalt from its tiny pockmarks, formed by bubbles of escaping gas that froze in place when hot magma hit the cool air.

Scientists can determine ancient atmospheric concentrations by measuring CO2 and methane levels in tiny air bubbles trapped in such ice, formed when the ice fell to the earth as snow.

Confirmation of this idea requires a direct record of the ancient atmosphere — and this can be recovered by analysing the air that became trapped in tiny bubbles within ice as the snow it formed from fell to Earth.

Then, as raindrops strike, they form tiny air bubbles.