Sentences with phrase «as electrical discharges»

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Some fish, such as the electric ray (Torpedo nobiliana), stun their prey with huge electrical discharges, while others sense their surroundings with a stream of weak pulses — sometimes more than 1000 a second.

One well - known model for the beginnings of life on Earth posits that terrestrial life sprang from complex molecules such as amino acids and sugars produced by electrical discharges in a primeval atmosphere replete with gases such as methane, hydrogen, ammonia and water.

Rather, aura photography (also known as Kirlian photography after the Russian inventor of the process) is a non-camera technique in which a «high - voltage, high - frequency electrical discharge is applied across a grounded object,» and the «air glow» or «aura» yielded is recorded onto the film.

Wearing a good safety steel toe boots can help you prevent many foot injuries from falling & flying objects, from punctures, from cutting hazards, from electrical hazards such as a static - discharge or electric - shock hazard.

The longer your battery runs, the less stored charge it will have — this concept is known as «self - discharge», a phenomenon in all batteries where a battery's electrical capacity is slowly drained over time.

It is recorded in some ancient texts that Mars and Venus both had close encounters with the Earth, resulting in massive electrical discharges between planets as they sought to equalize potentials.