Sentences with phrase «droplets of water suspended»

The new method involves isolating small sections of thousands of genes in tiny droplets of water suspended in an oil.

In 2005, chemical engineer William Ristenpart of the University of California, Davis, was studying the effects of electric charge on droplets of water suspended in oil.

A passive, durable, and effective method of water collection, fog harvesting consists of catching the microscopic droplets of water suspended in the wind that make up fog.

Not exact matches

Once they are dispersed, the tiny droplets of oil are more likely to sink or remain suspended in deep water rather than floating to the surface and collecting in a continuous slick.

When the humidity is high, water vapor condenses around aerosols, forming tiny suspended droplets that spread around all wavelengths of sunlight equally — a fancy way of saying that water whitens the sky.

Scientists are keeping a close watch on variables that might affect life in the open ocean, including depleted oxygen levels caused by a feeding frenzy from oil - and gas - eating microbes, and the unknown effects of dispersants, which break the oil into droplets but may keep it suspended in the water.

For one test, the team suspended a particle of sodium at one node, and a droplet of water at another — and then brought them together in a burst of fizzing (see a video at bit.ly / LevitationVid).

Such phase separation explains why anise - flavored liqueurs such as pastis and ouzo go cloudy when diluted with water; the cloudiness actually consists of tiny droplets of one phase suspended in the other.

Clouds form when water condenses on particles of dust, and rain falls when condensed water droplets grow too heavy to be suspended by updrafts in the atmosphere.

Principal investigator Livia Eberlin, a chemistry professor at the University of Texas at Austin, explained that it's designed to gently extract small molecules from the surface of living tissue using nothing but a suspended droplet of water.

You might wonder just what scientists could be able to do with suspending droplets of water or other light object.

Moonbows are natural atmospheric phenomena that occur by the interaction between sunlight reflected off the surface of the moon and water droplets suspended in the atmosphere

I couldn't see where in the equations the effect of suspended (or teminally falling) water droplets on surface pressure was handled.