Sentences with phrase «acts as a lid»

For that I have used greaseproof paper and tin foil to act as a lid.

Underwater permafrost acts as a lid to restrain methane stored in the seabed.

Leave the top strip unscrewed as this will act as your lid.

Remobilization to the atmosphere of only a small fraction of the methane held in East Siberian Arctic Shelf (ESAS) sediments could trigger abrupt climate warming, yet it is believed that sub-sea permafrost acts as a lid to keep this shallow methane reservoir in place.

Perforations around underwater volcanic vents can allow CO2 droplets to escape and bubble up to the surface, but where the seawater is cold enough it effectively freezes the CO2 into a solid, or hydrate, form that acts as a lid.

The keyboard acts as a lid for the Air 2, while a back cover protects the whole thing for easy travel.

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Second, insofar as the sequester is acting as a cap on overall economic growth, it is, in some measure, putting a lid on private sector hiring as well.

While we often like to get stuck into flouring surfaces with our bare hands, a flour dredger with a sieve or punched metal lid ensures an even dusting of flour and better control of ingredients than a traditional sieve, plus they also act as small storage vessels.

My eyelids are typically very red and veiny, so I apply concealer to the lid to act as a base for eyeshadow later on.

We don't get the sleepy lidded grin, the twangy drawl, the crazy laughing - man act, all those things indulged to the full in his previous outing, As Good as It GetAs Good as It Getas It Gets.

The rear is topped with a curved trunk lid that acts as a spoiler.

This will keep a lid on costs and act as an incentive for the contractor to move the job along faster.

Remove lid and place inside a pillowcase stuffed with straw or shredded newspaper to act as insulation (no glossy paper).

With no lid or door attached, the bottom half of the plastic airline style crate acts as a large litter pan with high sides.

One Anonymous Bloke — The ice mass doesn't act so much as a cooling «force» as it does as a lid covering or insulating warmer water.

The expansion of sea ice during the last ice age acted as a «lid» on the Southern Ocean, preventing CO2 from escaping.

You merely have to say that it's * physics *, and if they are technically - educated explain the general thrust of this physics (e.g. triatomic or larger molecules, which are scarce in the atmosphere, generally have vibrational modes that will be active in the IR, where Earth emits due to Wien's law, and thus will act as a blanket or lid, and Earth would be 255K = -18 C = 0F by Stefan - Boltzmann if this weren't the case) and they go, «Oh, ok!

In such events, the oceans become stratified, with warm layers acting as «lid» on deeper, cooler water.

You'll want a fairly large box then will cut off all of the flaps but one, which will be left on to act as the dumpster's lid.

The dome acts as a paperweight, keeping a lid on papers until you ¿ re ready to look at them.