Sentences with phrase «filters from seawater»

We have applied «whole - genome shotgun sequencing» to microbial populations collected en masse on tangential flow and impact filters from seawater samples collected from the Sargasso Sea near Bermuda.

Not exact matches

A flow meter measured seawater volume, which was pumped through external ports at predetermined times, and multiple 200um - mesh filters retained the plankton from separate samples.

Baleen whales are a group of Mysticeti, large whales usually from colder waters that lack teeth but have baleen plates in the upper jaw which are used to filter food such as krill out of large quantities of seawater.

A flow meter measured seawater volume, which was pumped through external ports at predetermined times, and multiple mesh filters retained the plankton from separate samples.

But at some point during whale history, the ancestors of modern mysticetes replaced teeth with baleen, fibrous plates that filter out small bits of food from seawater like a giant sieve.

And it had a large set of teeth with no evidence of the comb - like fringes used by other baleen whales to filter their food from seawater.

A big limitation in existing nanofiltration and reverse - osmosis desalination plants, which use filters to separate salt from seawater, is their low permeability: Water flows very slowly through them.

(A point made with a vivid irony by Arthur C. Clarke at the end of one of his «Tales From The White Hart» (paraphrased): «It's quite probable that even now, molecules of the late professor are passing through the very seawater filter that he devised...»)