Sentences with phrase «dense than water»

Cold water will sink, moving warmer water upwards, or along in a current until it reaches a position where it's less dense than the water above, at which point it rises.

The land surface temperatures vary a lot more because air is less dense than water and lots of the air where the land surface temperatures are measured is less dense than sea level air.

Fact: water is a standard for weight, volume & density — anything heavier or more dense than water will sink in water.

In an Air lift, air is introduced into a pipe, making the column of water in the pipe less dense than the water outside the pipe.

Propane is less dense than water, so LPG - based fracking projects should require less truck traffic and smaller staging areas, which cuts carbon emissions.

The stone must be more dense than water because it sinks.

The system can only levitate things that are as dense or less dense than water, but there is no intrinsic cap on size.

If an object is less dense than the water around it, it will float.

«To make this nuclear pasta you have to compress it to 1014 grams per cubic centimetre — 100 trillion times more dense than water,» Horowitz says.

And around Antarctica, where even the surface ocean water is already quite cold and dense, some of that water in the ocean depths, which is also carbon rich, eventually warmed enough so that it became less dense than the water above it.

Because air is less dense than water, collisions are less frequent.

For an object to sink it must be more dense than the water.

Hollow things often float too as air is less dense than water.

When the sides of the bottle are squeezed, the pressure on the air bubble increases making it compress into a smaller space, causing the air bubble to increase in density, so it is more dense than the water and so sinks.

Also Oil is less dense than water (meaning there is less of it in the same volume) and therefore floats on top of water in a nice layer.

Objects denser than water sink.

Did you know submarines dive down by making themselves denser than water.

The liquid layer was 17 % denser than water at room temperature.

KOI - 314c is only 30 percent denser than water.

This is very different from the buoyant force that keeps ships floating, because unlike a ship, the needle is in fact on average denser than water and will sink if gently nudged downward.

Using diamond anvil cells (DAC), the team applied 2.5 GPa of pressure (25 thousand atmospheres) to pre-compress water into the room - temperature ice VII, a cubic crystalline form that is different from «ice - cube» hexagonal ice, in addition to being 60 percent denser than water at ambient pressure and temperature.

The oil is denser than water (~ 1.6 g per ml), which means that 1 ml has 3.2 mg of barium.

The texture is a little denser than water, and it contains a lot more interesting (fermented!)

A cubic meter of water weighs one ton, and coal is not that much denser than water.

The tar sands oil is denser than water and therefore sinks to the bottom of waterways, smothering any benthic (bottom - dwelling) creatures.

Liquid CO2 is denser than water, so it will head for the bottom, and since it's a non-polar molecule it won't mix with the seawater.

Not exact matches

I did have to adjust the water since my flour is so much less dense than anything store bought.

When I made this recipe I used desiccated coconut, so since coconut flour is a lot denser and absorbs much more water than desiccated coconut, I suggest you use 1/3 to 1/2 cup of coconut flour, depending on the consistency of the batter.

The water roux was a total game changer: rather than the usual dense and chalky texture of so many other GF breads, this one looked like challah, smelled like challah, and tasted and even had the mouth feel of a nice challah.

Don't be afraid if the dough feels a little shaggy; it's better to have a loose dough than to add too much water, which will lead to a dense and heavy crust.

* We think this might be because an oil droplet was trapped inside a food colouring droplet and sank, but as the edges of the food colouring droplet diffused into the water suddenly the drop became lighter than the surrounding water (thanks to the less dense oil at the centre) and floated upwards quickly...

The reason that oil rests on top of the water rather than underneath is because it has a different density to water, water is denser and so sinks to the bottom.

Warm water is less dense than cold water, so the cold water in the water balloon was more dense than the hot water and so sank.

Frozen or liquid water is less dense than rock, but more dense than a gas.

Icebergs are made of fresh water, which is less dense than salty seawater.

(Because water ice is less dense than nitrogen ice, bergs of such material would waft along just as they would in Earth's seawater, the researchers explain.)

It should be possible to check: Rocky planets with water would probably be less dense than those without it, and a combination of the transit and wobble methods reveal a planet's density.

Oil, on the other hand, is more viscous than water but less dense.

something holding the crystals down, natural - gas hydrates will float up from the deep because they are less dense than the surrounding salt water.

Because that newly released water is less dense than both seawater and hydrate - seawater mix, it will rise as well.

Saturn is half as dense — less dense than even water, cubic inch for cubic inch.

The egg should have floated (with part of it above the water surface) in these two cups because the solutions were denser than the egg.

Heat causes water molecules to spread apart, making them much less dense than the surrounding water.

Oceanographer Xiao - Hai Yan of the University of Delaware in Newark and Ocean University of China in Qingdao has studied the Western Pacific Warm Pool — a body of water, warmer and less dense than the surrounding seas, that greatly expands and moves around the Pacific during an El Niño.

In less than a second the core collapses, becoming 100 trillion times as dense as water, and immediately bounces back.

Deep shady depressions, dense old forests or places close to water for example are always considerably cooler than their surroundings.

«Water is almost 1,000 times denser than air and would snap the wing off the RoboBee if we didn't adjust its flapping speed,» said Helbling, the paper's second author.

Less than 10 % of Nile water now reaches the sea, and most of the nutrient - rich sediment is trapped in the delta by a dense canal and irrigation system.

The researchers were able to see signs of watery adaptation not seen in other dinosaurs: a small nostril located far back on the head, apparently to limit water intake; relatively long forelimbs; big flat feet suitable for paddling as well as walking on muddy ground; and very dense limb bones, which would have allowed Spinosaurus to submerge itself rather than float at the surface.

Because water is denser than air, sound travels faster, farther, and more resonantly in it.