Sentences with phrase «by osmosis at»

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We need to check and see, for example, whether or not the water they're serving at Molecule has been treated by ultraviolet rays, ozone treatments and reverse osmosis via a machine that costs an unimaginable amount of money.

Firstly water is absorbed by the root and moves through root hair cells via the process of osmosis (we will look at this another day!).

But even with respect to the older child, I believe that Satter would say (and she indicated as much in an email to me) that with respect to any behavior at the table, whether it's eating vegetables or putting one's napkin on one's lap, children learn far better by osmosis — by observing your behavior — than through any overt parental pressure, which more often than not can backfire.

At the same time, if too much saltcollects in the soil around the plant, a pressure differential arises, and water is sucked from the roots by osmosis.

At the height of the London summer we mentioned claims by the Colorado company Osmosis that it had produced a drinkable sun screen (5 July).

Kate Ravilious reports on the Norwegian company Statkraft's proposal to build a football - stadium - sized plant along a Norwegian fjord that would produce, at best, 25 megawatts of electricity by a process based on osmosis (28 February, p 40).

Many parents assume that because they are adept at handling finances that their children will be too — by osmosis, perhaps?

The expansive white ground reverberates with an exquisite tint of pink, appearing as though the red of the circle seeped slowly out by osmosis to the porous surface area surrounding it, balanced at the other pole by extended halos of faint blue that saturate the white around Gottlieb's brushstrokes.

I hope, by osmosis, people's habits might change or that it will at least be thought - provoking.»