Sentences with phrase «between ice and water»

Well, that's the difference between ice and water.

``... using passive microwave data it is very easy to tell the difference between ice and water as the dielectric constant differs quite a bit and this is reflected in large differences in the microwave emission.

That land is like a poem of blue and green, a beautiful conversation between ice and water, sky and earth.

In physical terms, this change is a «phase transition», no more exotic than the familiar transition between ice and water.

Not exact matches

Lurking between Mars and Jupiter is the largest asteroid in the solar system: a dwarf planet called Ceres, which has ice volcanoes, salt deposits, and other features that suggest it's hiding an ocean of salt water.

The melting adds between 120 and 140 tons of ice to the ocean, which scientists say will raise water levels globally anywhere from 1.33 to 1.5 inches each year.

The year - long agreement between Sparkling Ice and Don Schumacher Racing (DSR) driver Pritchett was officially announced at this weekend's 34th annual NHRA Arizona Nationals, and will continue throughout the remainder of 2018 with Sparkling Ice as the exclusive sponsor in the sparkling water category.

I use the hose of the faucet to clean in between the leaves then I submerge the wedge in bowl of ice water and let it soak for a bit.

Add the butter and cream (be careful as the mixture will sizzle and spatter) and continue to cook until the caramel temperature reaches between 250 ° and 260 ° on an instant - read thermometer (this is soft ball stage; if you don't have a thermometer, you can test the caramel by dropping a very small amount into a cup of ice water.

Sugar contribution from water based beverages (e.g. soft drinks, sports drinks, iced tea) for each person has dropped by 17 per cent between 1997 and 2011

Add 2 tablespoons ice water and pulse until the dough comes together when pressed between fingers.

South Philly water ice, which should not be confused with Italian ice, is a textural oddity, somewhere between a solid and a liquid, and just as easily slurped from the cup as eaten with a spoon.

Use a dry hot knife (run under hot water and wipe dry between slices) to cut ice cream into a 6x4 grid to make 24 bars (if ice cream starts to soften, freeze again until firm before proceeding).

Add the vanilla extract and 4 tablespoons of ice water, and pulse until the dough either forms a ball or sticks together when pressed between your fingers.

We also noticed that the water temperature was not, as you might expect, controlled by the hot and cold water knobs but rather by cabin poltergeists and vacillated between scalding hot and ice cold.

«When the weather fluctuates between warm and cold and in bodies of water where there are currents underneath the ice, it can weaken the surface of the ice and make it dangerously fragile even though it seems to be frozen solid,» said Joe Pecoraro, manager of the Park District's Beaches and Pools Unit, who narrated the demonstration.

Remind her how well she is doing, and help her find a comfortable position, use cold rags for her face, and give her sips of water or ice in between contractions.

The MARSIS radar, which will soon be deployed on Mars Express, should be able to detect underground liquid water but may have trouble differentiating between ice and rocky soil.

Scientists created a new form of water — called superionic ice — that acts like a weird cross between a solid and a liquid, The New York Times reports.

Water touching the glacier got warmer, and «there was more interface between the water and the ice,» said BWater touching the glacier got warmer, and «there was more interface between the water and the ice,» said Bwater and the ice,» said Bevis.

Makkonen says that one of the key observations in VTT's research is that of friction melting the ice when the temperature rises to form a water film between the ice and the sliding material.

Still, Chapman says, he would not be surprised to see water ice on asteroids, adding that the distinction between comets, traditionally considered to be icy, and asteroids, which have been largely thought of as rocky, is becoming increasingly blurred.

In 2008, however, Andrew Rivkin of Johns Hopkins University in Laurel, Maryland, and Joshua Emery of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, found hints (pdf) that the asteroid 24 Themis, which sits in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, could have water ice on its surface.

To their surprise, the ice bubbled like boiling water at temperatures between -210 C / -346 F and -120 C / -184 F. Analysis of the gas showed it to be hydrogen molecules, which the researchers believe were formed from methanol and ammonia broken up by UV irradiation.

But increasingly warmer summer temperatures are melting the ice of the Bering Strait and Northwest Passage, opening a water highway between the Pacific and the Atlantic.

Velicogna and her colleagues also measured a dramatic loss of Greenland ice, as much as 38 cubic miles per year between 2002 and 2005 — even more troubling, given that an influx of fresh melt water into the salty North Atlantic could in theory shut off the system of ocean currents that keep Europe relatively warm.

These bonds between molecules, which are called hydrogen bonds, dominate the properties of water and ice.

A cloud front can be seen in the lower left, and dark areas indicate regions of open water between sea ice formations.

They had assumed that atmospheric water vapor had seeped into high - latitude martian soil and frozen between soil particles, forming a half - ice, half - soil mixture.

It was thought that the water quickly flowed between ice and rock and out to sea, with little impact on the bottom ice layers.

Astronomers have known about Europa's biological trifecta for almost two decades, yet there have always been doubts: For Europa to support life, the vital molecules on the surface need to mix with the water and energy below, and there is a giant slab of ice lying in between.

On a clear day, anyone flying over Greenland on the route between North America and Europe can look down and see the bright blue patches of melted water atop the flat, blindingly white expanse of the ice sheet that covers the island, the second largest chunk of ice on Earth.

A team at the University of Nottingham used a simulation that matches experimental and in situ observations to characterize ice on a spectrum between rime ice that forms from water vapor and glaze ice that forms from supercooled water droplets.

But during the 6 weeks the researchers spent on the Gould documenting the interaction between humpbacks and krill in Wilhelmina Bay and nearby waters, they counted 306 humpbacks parked on the huge krill swarm, and a total of 500 throughout the unusually ice - free bay at the record - setting density of 5.1 whales per square kilometer.

Between 17,000 and 27,000 years ago, much of the planet's water was frozen at the ice caps, and the continents were extremely arid.

It's called non-molecular ice, because the water molecule is broken apart and the hydrogen atoms are shared between neighboring oxygens.

That means it sinks into the deeper layers of the ocean, and the contrast between this warm water and the undersea ice canyons contributes an unknown but substantial amount of sea level rise, said Josh Willis, an oceanographer at JPL in Pasadena, California.

We also can determine how water is exchanged between polar ice, the atmosphere, and the soil,» said Villanueva.

Expanding sea ice would have melted into the North Atlantic Ocean, interfering with the normal mixing between surface and deeper waters.

We were particularly interested in the nature of this relationship because of the hypothesized seasonal movement of krill to inshore waters around the Antarctic Peninsula in winter, rapid changes in the climate and sea ice patterns of the Antarctic peninsula [15], [16] and the known relationships between baleen whales and krill.

I will present new numerical models that treat dust coagulation / fragmentation, dust dynamics, simple gas - grain chemistry, and vapor diffusion simultaneously, and explore the connection between the water vapor in the disk atmosphere and the size - distribution and ice - to - rock ratios of the dust grains growing in the midplane.

The failure to provide an physical barrier between the tailings and water, solids, or other material leaves the tailings vulnerable to extensive penetration of the tailings by plant roots and animals as well as disturbance by freeze and thaw and ice formation and break up impacts.

While the Alps could lose anything between 75 percent and 90 percent of their glacial ice by the end of the century, Greenland's glaciers — which have the potential to raise global sea levels by up to 20 feet — are expected to melt faster as their exposure to warm ocean water increases.

The spacecraft observed a dramatic geological landscape, including complex interactions between massive deposits of water ice, methane, and frozen carbon monoxide.

He added that studies showed that melt water had been penetrating the glaciers and was acting as a lubricant between the ice and the base rock.

But the IPCC specifically excluded the mechanism able to produce the biggest amounts of water quickly - acceleration in the flow of ice from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the world's two major ice masses that would between them raise sea levels by about 70m if they completely melted.

Because the temperature of Ceres is relatively warm (between -93 ℃ and -33 ℃), water - ice exposed at the surface would rapidly convert into a gas in such a low - pressure environment.

This year will also see the continuation of two major cryosphere airborne and field campaigns: Operation IceBridge, which has provided a multi-dimensional view of Greenland, Antarctica, and sea ice since 2009, and the JPL - managed Oceans Melting Greenland, which is focused on the interaction between ocean waters and Greenland's glaciers that terminate in the ocean.

During glaciation, water was taken from the oceans to form the ice at high latitudes, thus global sea level drops by about 120 meters, exposing the continental shelves and forming land - bridges between land - masses for animals to migrate.

While theoreticians have predicted that such ices are formed by squeezing water molecules between two surfaces, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Ruhr - Universitat Bochum are the first to create it.