Sentences with phrase «as a sponge for»

The potatoes had acted as sponges for god - knows - how - much salt runoff from that bird.

Circular RNA's function in saliva is not entirely understood, although it does serve as a sponge for tiny RNA molecules called microRNAs, which bind to it.

For example, while policy makers have been debating the value of forests and farmland as a sponge for some human - generated carbon dioxide, the budget for a federal program monitoring atmospheric carbon dioxide with instruments on aircraft and tall radio towers has remained at $ 1.4 million a year over the last nine years.

Oceans will continue to act as a sponge for carbon dioxide, and surface temperatures will rise around the world.

Every year, hundreds of millions of nurdles, tiny pieces of plastic, are dumped into or lost at sea, where they eventually make their way into the food chain by acting as sponges for a variety of anthropogenic chemicals (e.g. hydrocarbons and DDT).

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When asked where he got his inspiration for his performance as Captain Sparrow, Depp said that «For a good portion of the time I was spending with [Richards], I was sponging as much of him as I possibly could for the character.&raqfor his performance as Captain Sparrow, Depp said that «For a good portion of the time I was spending with [Richards], I was sponging as much of him as I possibly could for the character.&raqFor a good portion of the time I was spending with [Richards], I was sponging as much of him as I possibly could for the character.&raqfor the character.»

Has enough been done for the exiles, for the unemployed and the homeless, and for the return of war prisoners that communism might not be drawn into Germany as a sponge draws in water, despite the present rejection of it in Western Germany?

Hi Dan, its a great substitute I used medium ground for this cake as I wanted a corse grain but you can buy really fine ground cornmeal which would work well in a sponge cake for a more delicate crumb.

It sounds a little like the sponge cakes my mum bakes - when my sister and niece were diagnosed as celiac this was one of the first recipes my mum made for them because they have so little flour it was easy to de-glutenise - not really my favourite type of cake and yet they make me so nostalgic that I sometimes fine them irresistable

It's also VERY flavorful (tofu is basically a sponge that soaks up whatever flavor you cook it in) and quite cost effective, as well — as usual, my pantry contained many of the ingredients for this sauce already, so it ended up costing me about $ 4.00 per serving for this amazing meal.

Read reviews of dense or no rise results and decided to try whisking egg whites and yolks separately as one would for a sponge cake.

Made this for the first time and after reading all the reviews about dense and not rising, decided to separate egg whites and yolks and whisk first the whites and then the yolks to increase volume, as one would for a sponge cake.

And there, on page 435, was this recipe for «visitandine,» described as a «simple, very white cake with an elegant small - grained - crumb, a lovely springy sponge, and a pure butter and sugar flavor that makes it perfect plain or paired with jam, fruit, chocolate, citrus curds, cream frosting, or glaze.»

It's so easy to make with no need for a tin inside your slow cooker as the sauce keeps the sponge lovely and moist and prevents any chance of the sponge burning.

The recipe I use makes for quite a dense sponge best suited to mini loaf pans (as I have used here) or muffin / cupcake tins.

As kids, my cousins and I would always get a special sponge cake for birthdays.

If I'm making them for my kids I let the sponge prove in the fridge so the sourdough taste isn't quite as pronounced.

Let this sponge rest for at least 10 minutes, or as long as 2 hours.

Made it as written... used all purpose flour for the sponge, and 1 cup of whole wheat pastry flour and 1 3/4 cup bread flour for the dough.

Coconut flour is very dry; like a sponge, it sops up moisture, so you can find recipes that use 1/2 cup coconut flour and 4 eggs, plus 1/2 cup agave (such as my recipe for Strawberry Cupcakes on page 24 of Gluten - Free Cupcakes).

I think it's the perfect ingredient for this creamy dessert because it acts as a sponge and takes on the flavors you pair it with, so you can taste the heros of this dessert: chocolate and naturally sweet California Raisins.

It may be, as Don Neer predicts, that some day a brawny key - punch operator who has practiced long hours in a corporate - owned kayak on a corporate - built lake may go out and beat a Russian for old Amalgamated Sponge.

A sponge can serve as a sandwich, for instance, and playing cards could be pieces of chicken.

Keep a frozen, saturated sponge inside a Ziploc bag for an ice pack that won't leak all over as it melts!

When you, as a world - weary parent, find yourself genuinely rooting for a chortling character made of neon yellow sponge (and wishing you could give him a squelching hug at the end of his journey), that's some serious stage magic right there.

Gather the same supplies as you would for a sponge bath and fill the tub with 2 - 3 inches of water.

What I can say for hand - washing, though, is that the best way (speed & water-wise) is to fill a small dishpan partway with water, pile in as many dishes as are covered at once, turn off the faucet, take them out one by one, scrub each side with a soaped sponge or brush, pile up elsewhere, and then rinse the whole pile quickly under water about as hot as you can take it.

As I was trying to think of a car craft for my 3 year old, I remembered how much Theo loves sponge painting.

As other officials told their favorite story of Parkside Candies, there was plenty of sponge candy on display for sale.

They called for sewage treatment mechanisms to keep waste from tainting the East River during floods and permeable surfaces that could act as a sponge when the area gets deluged.

These human - made materials were introduced in the 1990s, and researchers around the world are working on ways to use them as molecular sponges for applications such as hydrogen storage, carbon sequestration, or photovoltaics.

«The pores allow the MOFs to work like tiny sponges that can soak up chemicals such as pharmaceuticals and gases,» said Sanghamitra Deb, a postdoctoral researcher at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the U. of I.

The team chose silicateins — proteins that build the silica skeletons of marine sponges — as the basis for their work.

Based on the number of sponge boats, the number of divers, how long they go down, and how deep they go — all that stuff — we calculated once that if we interviewed every sponge diver about what they saw on the bottom, we'd learn as much as if one of us nautical archaeologists swam for a year.

Cdr1as, a large single - stranded RNA loop that is 1,500 nucleotides around, might act as a «sponge» for microRNAs.

The genetic signature of the comb jelly stood out as the most unlike any other animal, prompting the loss of status for the humble sponge.

Purists like Smith and Moore see the quest for size as industry's deal with the devil: In return for bigger pop and bigger profits, commercial breeders now cultivate hybrids that are just bland sponges for other flavors.

The sponge eluded scientists for 20 years because it lives in what researchers refer to as «the dead zone,» a relatively unpopulated depth of the Caribbean.

P: We found discodermolide [a drug from Discodermia, a sponge found in the Caribbean, the Bahamas, and the Gulf of Mexico], and it's gone through phase I clinical trials for treatment of solid tumors such as ovarian, pancreatic, breast, colon, or lung cancers.

«We believe that they use sponges as a kind of glove to protect their sensitive rostrums when they probe for prey in the substrate,» says Michael Krützen, formerly of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and now at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Using the University of Miami's Research Vessel F.G. Walton Smith as a platform for daily dives with the NOAA Marine Sanctuaries Foundation's Mohawk ROV, scientists from the U.S. and Cuba specializing in corals, sponges, algae and fish logged thousands of dive notes, underwater photos and video, documenting the geomorphology, biological zonation and diversity of marine organisms.

The scientists suspected that as the dolphins foraged for fish, the sponges protected their beaks, or rostra, from the rocks and broken chunks of coral that litter the sea floor, making this behavior the first example of tool use in this species.

Scientists have been isolating marine natural compounds from sea sponges and other marine organisms to find treatments for diseases such as cancer and tuberculosis.

The sponge genome confirms that sponges share much the same genetic tool kit for multicellularity as the rest of the animal kingdom.

The canyons are important because they act as a refuge for important species of fish and provide a habitat for sensitive species of deep water corals and sponges.

«Normal» ice, such as that found on Earth, is like a sponge that absorbs radio waves, but ice at very low temperatures is a mirror for radio waves.

Sponges have a critical role in the search for the origins of metazoan multicellular processes3, as they are generally recognized as the oldest surviving metazoan phyletic lineage.

Similarly, there are eumetazoan, eumetazoan sensu stricto and bilaterian genomic synapomorphies, as well as sponge - specific gene families (for example, kinases, see Supplementary Note 8).

I've never heard of this sponge before, but cleaning with just water is nothing new to me, as I've been cleaning face and body with just Norwex microfiber Body Cloths for almost two years now, and my skin is better than it's ever been!

- it is PERFECT for dry skin and has a very luminous finish - It doesn't oxidize - it lasts all day without looking cakey - I look GORGEOUS with the Maybelline Fit Me ® Matte + Poreless Powder I would recommend to use it with a damp beauty sponge such as the Real Techniques Miracle Complexion Sponge and with a hydrating moisturizer such as the L'Oréal Paris Hydra Genius Daily Liquid Care - Normal / Dry Skin IT WORKS REALLY WELL TOGETHER, and it's affordablesponge such as the Real Techniques Miracle Complexion Sponge and with a hydrating moisturizer such as the L'Oréal Paris Hydra Genius Daily Liquid Care - Normal / Dry Skin IT WORKS REALLY WELL TOGETHER, and it's affordableSponge and with a hydrating moisturizer such as the L'Oréal Paris Hydra Genius Daily Liquid Care - Normal / Dry Skin IT WORKS REALLY WELL TOGETHER, and it's affordable too!!