Sentences with phrase «by absorbing some heat»

By absorbing heat, aerosols can evaporate nearby cloud droplets — making the cloud less reflective and compounding the heating effect.

Fox aims to turn these diamond films into a new kind of solar cell, one that generates electricity by absorbing heat rather than visible - light wavelengths.

Environmentally, the fires are a double whammy: They destroy trees that help to slow global warming by absorbing heat - trapping carbon dioxide as they grow.

It cools the atmosphere by absorbing some heat — heat flows from warmer to cooler — and by increased cloud cover that changes the energy budget of the planet.

Not exact matches

Reduce heat, and simmer until most of liquid has been absorbed by dates, about 15 minutes.

Note: If using a dark colored pan, reduce the oven temperature, stated in the recipe, by 25 degrees F. (This is because dark colored pans absorb more of the energy coming from the oven walls so they become hotter and transmit heat faster than light colored pans.)

Bring the mixture to a boil over high heat, then reduce the temperature to a simmer, cover, and continue to simmer to 15 minutes until most of the liquid has been absorbed by the quinoa and the quinoa has popped and begins to look fluffy.

You may need to reduce the baking temperature by 25F because these pans absorb heat, which causes cakes to bake and brown faster.

Remember to lower the oven temperature by 25 degrees when using glass pans; they absorb heat quickly.

Reduce heat to medium - low and simmer gently, uncovered, until gin is reduced by slightly more than half, stirring occasionally (sauerkraut will still be crunchy and gin and caraway flavors will be absorbed), about 30 minutes.

Let the mixture sit off the heat until most of the liquid has been absorbed by the bread.

Cover sauce with lid slightly ajar and simmer over low heat, stirring occasionally, until milk is absorbed, about 45 minutes, adding more stock by 1 / 4 - cupfuls to thin if needed.

Cook over medium heat until all of the broth has been absorbed by the carrots and they are soft.

However, the Kabana Skin Care website addresses this issue by saying that contrary to titanium dioxide, zinc oxide absorbs the sun's intense UV rays and «turns it into comparably harmless infrared, which it disposes of as heat» rather than dumping the UV rays back into your body's cellular structures.

These molecules initially comprise just a small fraction of the gas, but they can absorb heat from the surrounding gas and get rid of it by emitting light, thereby cooling the cloud enough for stars to form.

And by absorbing the same light that triggers the drug release, the gold nanoparticles could also heat the cancer cells, providing a double punch.

You don't have to think about it too much but generally its recommended to stay away from pavement, building and other large objects that absorb heat by day and release it at night.

The massive Pacific Ocean is helping absorb the extra heat trapped by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere

Inside the greenhouse the visible light is absorbed by the plants and soil and is converted into heat, which is then emitted by the plants and soil in form of infrared radiation.

Humidity has a significant effect because water on the body absorbs enormous amounts of heat and then dissipates it by evaporation.

The molecule gets rid of some of the absorbed energy by heating up the material around it, and this generates a pressure wave.

If scientists can get a good handle on exactly how the thermal effects play out, they could steer a threatening asteroid into a safe orbit just by painting parts of its surface black (to absorb heat) or white (to reflect).

Scientists can measure how much energy greenhouse gases now add (roughly three watts per square meter), but what eludes precise definition is how much other factors — the response of clouds to warming, the cooling role of aerosols, the heat and gas absorbed by oceans, human transformation of the landscape, even the natural variability of solar strength — diminish or strengthen that effect.

Oceans are taking in about 90 percent of the excess heat created by human greenhouse gas emissions, but they're also absorbing some of the carbon dioxide (CO2) itself.

This was not a one - off event: bright snow is being replaced by dirty ice that absorbs more heat and melts faster (see Losing its sparkle).

By first converting the sunlight to heat and then back into light, the device fine - tunes the energy of photons absorbed by the photovoltaic cell, maximizing the electricity - generating potentiaBy first converting the sunlight to heat and then back into light, the device fine - tunes the energy of photons absorbed by the photovoltaic cell, maximizing the electricity - generating potentiaby the photovoltaic cell, maximizing the electricity - generating potential.

The rest is absorbed by items within the car and translated into infrared rays, or heat.

The heat absorbed by water vapor and carbon dioxide is shared with all the nitrogen, oxygen and argon, because the latter molecules are always bumping into water vapor and carbon dioxide as they mix in the atmosphere.

Instead of dissipating into space, the infrared radiation that is absorbed by atmospheric water vapor or carbon dioxide produces heating, which in turn makes the earths surface warmer.

The next most abundant gases — water vapor and carbon dioxide — do absorb a portion of the infrared heat radiated by the earth's surface, thereby preventing it from reaching space.

Some of the laser energy is absorbed by the tissues and converted into heat, leading to rapid thermal expansion inside the tissues that produces ultrasonic waves.

They can have both a cooling effect, by blocking out incoming sunlight, and a warming effect, by absorbing some of the heat energy that the earth sends out toward space.

The rest gets turned into radio waves or light, which turn into heat when they are absorbed by other surfaces.

Shivering and trying to warm the body by exercising only contribute to heat loss; the cold water absorbs the heat far more quickly than the body can create it and cools the extremities, which then cool the body's core.

In a thermo - photovoltaic device, external heat causes the material to glow, emitting light that is converted into an electric current by an absorbing photovoltaic element.

In a thermo - photovoltaic device, heat from an external source (chemical, solar, etc.) makes a material glow, causing it to emit light that is converted into electricity by a photovoltaic absorber.

Once in the atmosphere, the dust can heat parts of the atmosphere by absorbing energy from sunlight.

Under full sunlight, the energy from excess absorbed photons is intentionally dissipated by the plant as heat.

Critics argue that albedo modification and other «geoengineering» schemes are risky and would discourage nations from trying to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide, the heat - trapping gas that comes from the burning of fossil fuels and that is causing global warming by absorbing increasing amounts of energy from sunlight.

The second technique, photoacoustic imaging, uses an infrared laser that, when absorbed by blood, heats it.

By developing these materials absorbing large amounts of water without losing its shape was achieved, as well as the ability to retain heat at a temperature between 37 and 42 degrees Celcius.

But when they encounter biological tissue, they either reflect off the body harmlessly or get absorbed by the skin as heat.

Earth's storm clouds are stopped about 20 kilometres up by a layer of warm air heated by ozone, which absorbs the sun's ultraviolet rays.

The ocean absorbs most of the extra heat trapped by greenhouse gases — more than 80 percent — with temperatures rising up to 3,000 meters below the surface.

So the report notes that the current «pause» in new global average temperature records since 1998 — a year that saw the second strongest El Nino on record and shattered warming records — does not reflect the long - term trend and may be explained by the oceans absorbing the majority of the extra heat trapped by greenhouse gases as well as the cooling contributions of volcanic eruptions.

Last year, researchers at Rice University developed a similar treatment that uses a near - infrared laser to heat nanoshells — microscopic glass beads coated in gold that are too large to be absorbed by healthy cells but small enough to sneak inside tumors through their blood vessels.

We also find heat sloshing around the world's oceans, which absorb 93 quadrillion watts of the sun's energy — a hundred thousand times more power than could be produced by all the power plants in the United States put together.

Specifically they are reusing the wasted heat that is created when compressing air creates heat, which is absorbed, stored, and reused by mists of water.

And whatever heat is absorbed and reradiated is reflected back toward the skin by the copper layer that now sits toward the outside, effectively trapping body heat.

The ocean's ability to absorb heat and carbon could reduce the warming already in the pipeline by 0.2 to 0.3 C, they wrote.