Sentences with phrase «against the surface tension»

The fan improves the ability of Rhagovelia to push against the surface tension of water.

Not exact matches

That avoidsworking against gravity and cuts down surface tension.

Too often, the picture lives and dies on its ability to keep the pace fluid — but just that need for momentum suggests something amiss at the heart of the piece, a certain surface tension that would pop should the rock - star protagonist we envy ever collide against the satire of the kind of colossal moral vacuity required of his vocation.

The tensioner rides on the outside surface of the belt to put pressure, or tension, on the belt and against the pulleys that drive things like the alternator, power steering, air conditioner, etc..

Tensions surfaced last September in protests against the Contemporary Art Museum here around a show of work by a white artist, Kelley Walker, that included images of black bodies smeared with chocolate and rainbow - colored toothpaste.

By pulling against one another, these layers create a tension between seductive surface effect (like the flattened world of the digital screen) and the histories and methods of Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.