Sentences with phrase «breaking the water surface»

To move and turn, they use «a sculling motion, [where] during the front stroke the leg is in the air, and during the reverse stroke the leg is pushing water [but] never breaking the water surface,» says principal investigator Metin Sitti.
Godzilla's scaly back breaking the water surface, Aaron Taylor - Johnson on a bridge, hiding from something in the darkness.
Movement, such as running from a faucet, breaks the water surface tension and draws in health giving oxygen.

Not exact matches

Then with the hand of your pastor or your friends, sometimes both, at your back your face breaks the surface of the water and you breathe in new life.
1) Sift the flour into a mixing bowl 2) Add the salt to the flour, mixing together 3) Add the olive oil, mixing as you add to ensure the flour envelopes the oil 4) Add warm water bit by bit until dough reaches the right consistency 5) One the dough ready, roll it into a ball, and knead well on a cool, flat surface 6) Flatten the dough with a wooden rolling pin 7) Cut into 10 cm pieces and roll them long enough and evenly 8) Place the pin - shaped dough on a well - greased baking tray 9) Bake in oven at 175 deg cel (medium heat for gas ovens) for 20 -30 minutes or until the sticks are ready (test by breaking off a small piece to check that the inside is well cooked) 10) Allow to cool for 5 minutes before serving
This is accomplished with a powerful blast of warm air that quickly breaks up the layer of surface water on a userâ $ ™ s hands for quick removal and evaporation.
To keep kids out of the pool, use fences around them or use the pool alarm as it will sound if anything breaks the surface of the water.
contain Saponin, a natural cleaner that works as a surfactant, breaking the surface tension of the water to penetrate the fibers of your clothing, lifting stains from the fabric and leaving dirt suspended in the water that is rinsed away.
Genesis 950 is a green, surfactant based cleaner that works with water to break the bonds of stains and lift them from the surface.
Hydrofracking relies on a high - pressure blend of chemicals, sand and water pumped deep underground to break up gas - bearing rock formations, freeing gas to rise up the well to the surface.
Dispersants have been applied to oil slicks on the ocean surface for half a century to break petroleum into smaller droplets that dissipate into waters of the open ocean so that less oil reaches ecologically sensitive coastlines.
For the first time, scientists have now explained the physics behind the surprising phenomenon: The water's surface tension breaks the seal between ink and glass, researchers report in a paper in press in Physical Review Letters.
Dispersants are mixtures of solvents, surfactants and other additives that break up the surface tension of an oil slick and make oil more soluble in water, according to a paper published by the National Academy of Sciences.
«What is most likely the case is that the parent body [of this family] was water - ice - rich, was broken up, and now the surface of its largest fragment, Themis, has been impact - excavated, revealing the ice that was once deep in a larger object,» says Britney Schmidt of UCLA, who was not affiliated with Campins's study.
A water pipe had broken and flooded the living room; every surface was covered with piles of damp papers, and the sofa was heaped with dissolving cardboard boxes.
«Breaking down metal oxide into tiny particles increases its surface area and exposes lots of ultra-small, interconnected grain boundaries that become active sites for the water - splitting catalytic reaction,» Cui said.
Sea spray droplets are aerosol water particles that are ejected into the atmosphere as waves break at the ocean surface.
(That's why a straw in a drinking glass appears to be broken at the water's surface.)
It begins eating fish from the age of six months or so, sometimes grabbing large prey and rubbing it on the ocean floor or smacking it on the water's surface to break it into bite - size bits.
Since the surface is a few tenths of a degree cooler than the water below, when a wave breaks, the warmer water beneath (orange and red) mixes with the cooler water above (blue and violet).
They observed three types of ice losses, each with a distinctive and detailed sound signature: the splash of an ice block falling off into the water; the crack of a fragment sliding down the glacier's rough surface; and the soft thud of an underwater ice chunk breaking away and floating up, followed by a secondary impact as it surfaces.
But for reasons that are still not clear, this pattern is broken every three to seven years, when the winds and currents reverse and the warm surface waters spread east towards the Americas, taking the rain with them.
If there were too much UV light, no water could survive on the surface because the water molecules would break up and escape through the top of the atmosphere as hydrogen and oxygen gas.
«Thermal motion on the outer surface of a water droplet impacts many processes, including breaking of a single drop into many smaller droplets.»
When petroleum leaks from a ship or a deep - water drilling operation, «it tends to break up into tiny droplets that don't all end up on the surface of the ocean,» says Thomas Azwell, an environmental scientist at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, who was not involved in the work.
In the water above natural oil seeps in the Gulf of Mexico, where oil and gas bubbles rise almost a mile to break at the surface, scientists have discovered something unusual: phytoplankton, tiny microbes at the base of the marine food chain, are thriving.
Scientists suspect water on the surface of Mars evaporates, rises into the upper atmosphere, breaks into hydrogen and oxygen atoms, and is then swept into outer space by the solar wind.
And we now know that saltwater ice lurks just below the surface, occasionally breaking through as liquid water.
«Impossible» material made with record - breaking surface area and water adsorption abilities.»
A novel material with world record - breaking surface area and water adsorption abilities has been synthesized by researchers from Uppsala University, Sweden.
To do so would probably require a probe capable of surviving a hard landing on Mercury, one that would also break up the surface enough for it to sample any water beneath.
What we are seeing here are the hidden depths of the iceberg, not just the relatively small number that break through the surface waters to become cancer.»
In the deep gold mines of South Africa, and under the sea, at hydrothermal vents where breaks in the fissure of Earth's surface that release geothermally heated waters — hydrogen - rich fluids host complex microbial communities that are nurtured by the chemicals dissolved in the fluids.
True lava forms more enduring structures — like Surtsey in Iceland, which broke through surface waters in 1963 and remains exposed today — while islands of mostly pumice and ash are quickly torn down by the waves.
Tidal forces regularly break the ice, allowing water from the depths to well onto the surface, leaving stains that provide evidence of the ocean's chemistry.
With too much UV light, no water could persist on the surface because its molecules would break down into hydrogen and oxygen gas and escape through the atmosphere.
Sprayed from planes or boats, dispersants reduce the surface tension at the oil - water interface, allowing waves to break the slick into tiny droplets.
This rough surface allows the bonds between the carbon dioxide gas and the water to more easily break, helping to create carbon dioxide bubbles and cause the classic eruption.
Our work has shown that this simple picture works quantitatively in some cases with a homogeneous surface, for instance water molecules surrounding small sugar molecules, but breaks down in other cases, for instance hydration water around crowded proteins.
As algae on the water surface also eventually die, bacteria will break them down.
Specifically, they are studying how molecules other than water break on surfaces.
If and how water (H2O) breaks when it hits a metal oxide surface, such as a catalyst or a pipe, matters.
The research team showed that when they do break, it is because surface forces align water molecules in a specific way, long before they hit the surface and dissociate.
El Niños generate large - scale waves in the ocean (these aren't like the waves that break on the water's surface).
Climate change made it 175 times more likely that the surface waters of the Coral Sea, which off the Queensland coastline is home to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, would reach the record - breaking temperatures last month that bleached reefs, modeling analysis showed.
Break eggs into individual cups and slip into water, 1 at a time, as close as possible to the surface.
This lowers the water retention levels of the hair shaft, and it makes it less likely for the surface cuticle of the hair to lift away (due to swelling of the hair shaft) and break off during combing.
Break eggs, 1 at a time, into a measuring cup or saucer; slip eggs, 1 at a time, into water, holding cup as close as possible to surface of water.
We can try and define exactly when they happened, but what we are usually naming is just a starting line — a rock dropped into the still water of our day that not only breaks the surface but also sends ripples through the rest of our life as well.
Witnesses said the fisherman struggled for about 30 minutes to an hour to get the shark up to the surface of the water before the shark broke the line Great white sharks are a protected species and by law must be released if inadvertently hooked.
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