Sentences with phrase «floats in a vat»

The lighthouse's Fresnel lens alone weighs 4 tons, floats in a vat containing more than 250 pounds of liquid mercury and is composed of hundreds of reflecting prisms.

Not exact matches

«You separate them out by their weight, so you have rows of them floating in these plastic vats,» Reed explains.

The E. coli directly secretes the resulting biodiesel, which then floats to the top of a fermentation vat, so there is neither the necessity for distillation or other purification processes nor the need, as in biodiesel from algae, to break the cell to get the oil out.

If all goes well, researchers envision giant vats of this specially engineered bacteria floating in cheap and abundant glucose, producing indigo for our bluejeans and shibori - dyed linens.

If any pieces float initially, just place them in a vat full of freshwater and put a brick or rock on top until it becomes waterlogged.