Sentences with phrase «film of water»

Driving at high speeds in heavy rain could lead to your car aquaplaning (rise up on a thin film of water between the tires and road so that there is no more contact with the road).

The slipperiness, caused by films of water spread over large areas, helps ascertain how quickly a melting ice sheet will slide into the sea as the climate warms — and thus how quickly sea levels will rise.

Red snow: When snow repeatedly melts partially and then refreezes, the stage is set for a red - pigmented alga, Chlamydomonas nivalis, to take up residence in the thin films of water around the snow particles.

But, Levy says, in recent years there has been an increasing appreciation for salts and how they might create intragranular films of water: Instead of the deep briny lakes or aquifers one might find on Earth, scientists are now looking to «small pockets of briny soils that resist freezing and are chockablock with nutrients.»

Results: A thin film of water more quickly solidifies gaseous carbon dioxide, according to scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory who are studying underground storage of the common pollutant.

The PNNL team found that nanometer - thick films of water coat the minerals and accelerate the reactions to solidify carbon dioxide.

The detailed animation captures even the thin film of water on Miguel's red sweatshirt, as well as the flickering light of the candles lit to welcome the spirits of the dead to this world.

In contrast to conventional decorative fountains, it uses a chilled film of water.

That suggests thin films of water have formed at the location in the past, so studying the chemical composition can reveal much more about the martian past.

The cheese sweats in the heat, and the film of water prevents the odour from being released.

The authors conclude that liquid on present - day Mars may be limited to traces of dissolved moisture from the atmosphere and thin films of water.

But on wet pavement, a slick tire hydroplanes, or rides up onto a film of water, and loses contact with the pavement.

Knowing the slope of the hill at many distances from a film of water allowed researchers to reconstruct the shape of the hill, rather like a roofer specifies a roof shape by calculating a series of slopes and distances.

Acting on input from the windshield wipers» rain sensor, the pads are periodically brought up to the rotors — just enough to eliminate any film of water between pads and rotors, but not enough to cause any brake application.

Dab the brake pedal when driving in heavy rain or from a car wash to remove the film of water from the brake discs.

In a heavy rain, your tires can ride on a thin film of water, like skis.

As the name implies you will be «flying» on water and lose control because you can not steer the vehicle and the brakes have little effect due to the film of water between the tires and the road surface.

This melting process causes a film of water to develop between the snow / ice and the roof's surface.