Sentences with phrase «floating at the surface»

Gently place shaped bagels into the boiling water — as many as can float at the surface at the same time, which for me was 5 bagels.

The team found that species of foraminifera living on the sea floor around the time of the ice age contained more carbon than those that floated at the surface (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1188605).

Impurities stick to the bubbles which float at the surface where a skimmer takes case of the rest.

«When whales are feeding on krill, they're really high lipids, lots of fat, so it sort of clumps together and floats at the surface.

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.

She was in Blackfish Sound at the time, and half an hour later in front of the lab, where, the listeners swore, several of the orcas paused and floated at the surface, one of them clearly vocalizing in air, before carrying on.

She paddles around the kelp floating at the surface, looking intently into the water, and then suddenly ducks her head in, emerging with a green urchin in her beak, which she takes to shore, breaks open and eats.

With SNUBA, the breathing tank is attached to a raft which floats at the surface.

Because fresh water is less dense than salt water, it floats at the surface — creating a layer that is resistant to mixing with water at other levels.

Not exact matches

Enveloped in the blue mist of oxygen which its life breathes, it floats at exactly the right distance from the sun to enable the higher chemisms to take place on its surface.

In a large pot of salted, boiling water, place the pierogies, about 6 at a time, until they float to the surface of the water (about 3 minutes).

At that point the beans will fall to the bottom of the pot and the skins will float near the surface of the water where they can be skimmed off.

Located approximately 16 to 2,300 feet below the glacier, the five ocean sensors are connected to a weather station at the surface, creating the first cabled observatory on a floating, moving, and rapidly melting Greenland glacier.

«When I looked at that video and saw the hydrate floating to the top of those tubes underwater, I thought, «What if we had a tube going all the way from where hydrates form at depth to the [ocean] surface?»

The litter floating in the Arctic is particularly detrimental to seabirds, which feed at the sea surface.

Although CryoSat - 2 is designed to measure changes in the ice sheet elevation, these can be translated into horizontal motion at the grounding line using knowledge of the glacier and sea floor geometry and the Archimedes principle of buoyancy — which relates the thickness of floating ice to the height of its surface.

But lacking the necessary social skills, Keiko at first mostly floated motionless at the surface, facing towards the wild pods several hundred metres away.

Then last summer at Hydrate Ridge they discovered something that they had never seen before: Fizzing chunks of hydrate, some the size of refrigerators, broke off the seafloor a kilometer deep and floated to the surface before disintegrating.

The Quantum Dynamics Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), has recently made novel findings about electrons floating on the surface of liquid helium, a quantum system which may be a new candidate for quantum computing into reality.

It floats at the sea surface at night in a sinusoidal shape with its head pointing downwards and mouth agape.

Among the findings was that dispersants were able to eliminate about 21 percent the oil that floated on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico after the spill, but at the cost of spreading the remaining oil over a 49 percent larger area.

About half of the floats have now surfaced and relayed records of their daily positions to satellites passing overhead, says Amy Bower, a physical oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and an OSNAP principal investigator.

They used hollow glass spheres, which naturally float at the water surface, so a camera could capture the process.

Vapor blankets could not develop at the high supercritical pressures under the earth's surface, because SCW is always a mixture of microscopic liquid droplets floating in a very dense vapor.

Many suggest a large stock pot and organic meats, which you bring to just a boil, reduce the heat, skim off foam that floats to the surface, add vegetables, and keep at a slow simmer for some hours depending on the meat... beef for at least 8 hours so it has time to surrender all its minerals and flavor, and chicken for about half that time.

If you don't get a couple of immediate hits when looking at a card, sit with it calmly for a minute or two and see what floats to the surface.

Front matter, including Table of Contents and Preface Introduction: The School Zone SECTION ONE: FOUNDATIONS Chapter One Time to Learn Chapter Two Time, Growth, and Learning Chapter Three Using Time Wisely SECTION TWO: OBSERVATIONS Chapter Four Floating on the Surface in Seventh Grade Chapter Five On Your Mark, Get Set... Seven Years Old in First Grade Chapter Six Working to Be «All There at Once» SECTION THREE: TRANSFORMATIONS Chapter Seven Changing School Time Chapter Eight Changing the Structure of Time in Classrooms Chapter Nine Changing the Use of Time in Classrooms Chapter Ten Time to Teach Afterword: Heros in the Classroom Appendix A: Standards Appendix B: The Responsive Classroom ® Notes References Acknowledgments Index About the Author Northeast Foundation for Children, 1999, 336 pages, paper ISBN: 1 -892989-01-8

Particular attention has been paid to bump absorption, meaning that the Nissan Micra will ride serenely over challenging road surfaces, not suffer from wallow or float, and cruise effortlessly at highway speeds.

but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.

Rumors of the BlackBerry device model with the codename «Onyx» have been floating around for a while now and were proven legit when the first photos of it surfaced here at CrackBerry back on May 10th.

Bloodworms prefer to live on or in the substrate, while mosquito larvae mainly float at or near the surface.

Feeding sticks that float (at first) are excellent for predatory species to snatch from the water's surface.

A veterinarian will look at a sample of feces that has been mixed with a particular type of solution that causes worm eggs to float to the surface.

All you do to snorkel is float on the surface and look down at the beauty below.

Whales would surface beside our kayaks, leopard seals would ignore us as we floated by their ice flows, penguins would peck at our legs when we explored the sea shore and the icebergs and glaciers were huge.

She swam from one side of the boat to the next repeatedly, floating right at the surface, and often looking up to make eye contact with us.

You breathe through a simple to use regulator while your air supply floats on a comforting support raft at the surface.

In Ed Ruscha's series of holograms produced the same year, the phrase «The End» floats at various depths in the picture plane, set against animated lines scratched into a celluloid surface, and offering a new twist on the interplay between text, landscape, and spatial representation for which Ruscha is known.

The vegetation at the bottom left of the panel is a marvel of meticulous execution; the triangular snippet of orange drapery revealed amongst Mary's blue and red garments reveals an astute and not unwitty pictorial technician; the hands of the Virgin, scaled larger than the rest of the figure and floating all - but - imperceptibly above the surface of the canvas, have the durability of carved marble and the tenderness of living flesh.

Her carefully applied, thin acrylic strokes render the smoothly curved and tightly contained surface of an oversized bullet - shaped form, which floats surrealistically at the center of a Masonite ground, over-painted in white.

Working in watercolor, the artist tries his hand at a series of abstract motifs whose sparse forms float to the surface like notes of visual Muzak.

Three black and white photographs, float on the surface, a brief case and a full garbage bag is at the bottom of the pool.

I allow the paint to bleed, smudge, peel back at times, which disrupts the illusory or pictorial space, emphasizing the materials and surface instead... the way in which I construct illusions of depth and space, where certain patterns seem to float in front of others, screens of lines that you are looking through, into another internal space.

Placed in the upper half, and held in place by the physical edges of the painting's top and flanking sides, the ghostly bands float above a subtly inflected surface that we look at, as well as into, unable to settle comfortably in either domain.

For him the circular motifs were «structures that floated to the surface in my memory like life preservers floating in after a storm at sea»

At sea these particles or nurdles float just below the water's surface like confetti or a powder held in suspension.

During a recent cruise of the New Zealand research vessel Tangaroa, skin sea - surface temperatures were measured to high accuracy by the Marine - Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (M - AERI), and contemporaneous measurements of the bulk temperature were measured at a depth of ~ 5 cm close to the M - AERI foot print by a precision thermistor mounted in a surface - following float.

If you look at Bob Tisdale's post of July 16, 2013 and check the variance between modeled and actual temperature, http://bobtisdale.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/02-zonal-pacific.png, you will see that the great variance is in the tropics where the Argo float data shows the surface temperature is being limited to 31C.

Although CryoSat - 2 is designed to measure changes in the ice sheet elevation, these can be translated into horizontal motion at the grounding line using knowledge of the glacier and sea floor geometry and the Archimedes principle of buoyancy — which relates the thickness of floating ice to the height of its surface.

If they had asked, Karl could have floated those balloons with the radios at two meters above the surface.