Sentences with phrase «convection currents»

Those light elements would then rise into the liquid outer core, creating convection currents.

At the equator despite the greatest heating by the sun, convection currents carry away the heat.

The effect of this is a band of discomfort around the perimeter of a room where convection currents and cold spots make the space too uncomfortable to enjoy and make use of.

Hot material rises up to the outer layers of the globe, creating convection currents.

11 Thermal image of the Gulf Stream off the coast of the USA Ocean Currents In a similar way, radiation from the Sun heats the oceans, creating convection currents in the water.

Their movement is caused as they are jostled from below by powerful convection currents rising and falling beneath the photosphere.

The journey of light through space is illuminated in the water and gold dust, moving slowly with convection currents from heated elements beneath the tank, alluding to the similar structure of macro and microworlds: stars in the cosmos and micro-particles in the subatomic scale.

The same is true inside the Earth: In addition to convection currents moving heated material through the outer core and mantle, heat is conducted through liquids and solids without roiling them.

The configuration suppresses thermal convection currents on the substrate and cools the reactant gases just before they react.

Exactly what mechanism or mechanisms are behind their movement is still debated, but are likely to include convection currents within the asthenosphere and the forces generated at the boundaries between plates.

9 Wind In scientific terms this movement is known as Convection Current.

Therefore, to determine the depth of the Sputnik Planum basin, the team from PU looked to the floating hills of water ice that are drawn along in the plain's powerful convection currents.

Burning embers from the bark of trees were carried aloft by shifting winds and updrafts of the fire's own convection currents for up to 20 miles, jumping across roads, clearing fire breaks, and starting new blazes on the parched ground.

Unit 10 Lesson 5 Ocean Currents How do convection currents transfer energy?

Having said that... For one of the «reasons» not to microwave formula, you cited, «it creates hot spots,» and debunked with and argument about convection currents in liquid.

That water vapor rose within «rocket dust storms» — storms with rapid vertical movement — on convection currents similar to those in some storm clouds on Earth, says study coauthor Nicholas Heavens, an astronomer at Hampton University in Virginia.

The water cools the air, creating a tiny convection current.

In summer this plateau acts as a huge heat engine, absorbing solar energy which it transfers to the atmosphere, causing immense convection currents.

But brown dwarfs don't just exhibit starlike convection currents, they also have pretty impressive magnetic fields.

When convection currents reach the surface, they emit infrared radiation, cool and sink back to the interior.

Energy is carried outward from the shell by rapid convection currents.

Using a computer model that simulates Mars» atmospheric conditions, Spiga and his colleagues discovered that the cooling of the air at night around icy clouds on Mars can generate strong enough convection currents to trigger microbursts — a weather phenomenon often described as the opposite of tornadoes.

A simple (dirty — uncontrolled) experiment Central heating radiator Thermocouple (0.5 mm bead — fast response) inside cardboard tube 1cmx1cm (to isolate from radiation) Height at level of radiator top Still Air 50 cm 23.8 deg C 10 cm 23.6 deg C (convection currents drawing cool floor level air up through tube?

When rising air reaches a layer of adiabatically heated air the rising convection currents stop and the surface heat is trapped just like the raised windows in your car trap the heat.

12 E. Radiation Radiation does not require physical contact between objects radiation — the transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves Can feel warmth from a fire even when not in path of convection current due to radiation Energy transfer in the form of electromagnetic waves includes infrared radiation, visible light, and ultraviolet rays.

The other one they give is ink being poured into a glass of water, again, they are simply told that this is how carbon dioxide thoroughly mixes, but don't ever tell that what the children are seeing is fluid convection currents.

In - floor venting will carry stale air to the atrium, where it will then be released through the roof, using natural convection currents.

Germs and non-sterile air under the operating table can be transferred to the sterile surgical site through convection currents created by the warmed air.

In a similar way, radiation from the Sun heats the oceans, creating convection currents in the water.

b. Most importantly descending air currents adiabatically generate a thermal ceiling that prevents rising convection currents from carrying away surface heat.

«It gives us some insight into the connection between the slow circulation of near - solid rock in Earth's mantle caused by convection currents carrying heat upwards from the planet's interior, and observed active plate tectonics at the surface.

The water is generally dappled by a slight chop from a mild onshore wind prompted by eddying and convection currents rising up the lava - striped flank of Mauna Loa.

The role that heat plays in the formation of convection currents is when water loses heat, it becomes denser and sinks

The sand frequently hitches a ride on atmospheric convection currents and travels as far south as the tropical Atlantic and west to the Caribbean Sea.

Earth scientists have long suspected that upwellings in these mantle convection currents would manifest themselves as the plumes responsible for Earth's volcanic hot spots.

11 How do convection currents transfer energy?