Sentences with phrase «heat out of the soil»

These cooling sticks are 7.6 - meter - long steel tubes drilled into the soil; they contain ammonia, which draws latent heat out of the soil as it evaporates.

Not exact matches

Add the water and the soil to a gallon - size bucket or jar and keep in a place out of direct heat or cold (I keep in my garage).

Even in areas where precipitation does not decrease, these increases in surface evaporation and loss of water from plants lead to more rapid drying of soils if the effects of higher temperatures are not offset by other changes (such as reduced wind speed or increased humidity).5 As soil dries out, a larger proportion of the incoming heat from the sun goes into heating the soil and adjacent air rather than evaporating its moisture, resulting in hotter summers under drier climatic conditions.6

During a period of rapid population growth, a lower heat capacity due to drying out of the soil and lost vegetation, and an increase in heat retaining surfaces, then homogenization more often amplifies those warming effects that is not indicative of climate change.

A large container will prevent the soil from drying out too quickly during the heat of summer as well.