Sentences with phrase «high water surface»

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The process of fracking involves vertical and horizontal drilling, often for more than 10,000 feet below the surface, followed by the injection of millions of gallons of water, chemicals and sand at high pressures.

One study out of Duke University found a higher - than - average presence of methane in water wells located close to fracking operations, but methane in groundwater can come from a variety of sources, including organic decomposition near the surface.

Because of its high amount of surface water, it was ideal for loi, irrigated fields for farming the starchy vegetable taro, a staple crop, she said.

When demand for electricity is again high, the system is reversed: The weight of the water forces the air back to the surface, where it collects the stored heat and drives an expander, reproducing approximately 70 per cent of the input electricity and releasing the air back into the environment.

I recall us in our pallor at the stand - offish kibbutz on its narrow shelf of shore past the Qumran scroll mines, how they had fresh water hoses afloat on the surface to wash our mouths and eyes if the clear Mars - gravity water got into them, as we drifted high as triremes.

For, was the surface of the earth even and level, and the middle parts of its islands and continents not mountainous and high as now it is, it is most certain there could be no descent for the rivers, no conveyance for the waters; but, instead of gliding along those gentle declivities which the higher lands now afford them quite down to the sea, they would stagnate and perhaps stink, and also drown large tracts of land.

When the onion mixture starts separating oil, add the masala paste and fry it on high heat till all the water is absorbed and the oil surfaces again.

To cook the BEET: place it in a pot with water covering a few inches over its surface; boil over high heat until fork - tender (about 10 minutes); remove beet from water with tongs; run it under cold water to remove skin (carefully using fingers to help skin fall off); set aside to cool.

Add the water and all the remaining ingredients and bring to a boil over high heat, skimming any foam that comes to the surface.

Heat a wok over high heat until a bead of water dropped onto cooking surface evaporates immediately.

Cover the setup loosely with plastic to retain moisture, spritz the surface lightly with tepid water every day if it seems dry, and then, after the seeds have sprouted, remove the plastic and move the containers someplace where the seedlings will receive plenty of bright light — either the sill of a super-bright, clean window; very close to a four tube fluorescent fixture; or under some high - intensity grow lights.

«When they cook and that water evaporates, the higher, curved sides of a baking dish will cause your vegetables to steam more than if they were on a flat surface with shallow sides.»

Water molecules move from areas of low surface tension to high surface tension and so the sticks moved.

-- Drinking water fountain spigots had the highest amount of bacteria on the tested surfaces — 2.7 million bacterial cells per square inch.

Today's commercial detergents (such as Tide and Gain) do not contain phosphates, but they do have a high concentration of surfactants (surface active agents) which contribute to their cleaning power and are less sensitive to water hardness.

Measuring 4.7 inches high by 4.3 inches wide, the cute night light features a water drop shape and soft silicone surface.

The Plastic Island rests just below the surface of the water, although high volume sections do surface.

Last summer Gov. Andrew Cuomo lifted the official moratorium on the controversial drilling technique, which involves shooting a high pressure mixture of water and chemicals into the shale rock deep below the Earth's surface.

Hydrofracking relies on a high - pressure blend of chemicals, sand and water pumped deep underground to break up gas - bearing rock formations, freeing gas to rise up the well to the surface.

Liquid water is not a prerequisite for a high score: A planet with liquids on the surface receives more points than a dry world, but the presence of water confers no additional advantage.

The relatively high water content of NWA 7034, which could be as much as 0.6 % by weight, suggests that «crustal or surface processes involving water may have lasted» well beyond the 4 - billion - year mark, Agee adds.

The meteorite, dubbed Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034, contains a concentration of water by weight about ten times higher than in any of the other 100 or so known Martian meteorites — those rare rocks that get ejected from the Martian surface into space when an asteroid hits the planet, and eventually find their way to Earth.

Combining high resolution images and infrared spectra collected during the probe's approach, a team of nearly two dozen scientists pinpointed three patches of water ice on the surface of the comet's «upper» half.

In addition, the fact that water becomes less viscous when compressed, or its unusually high surface tension, allows insects to walk on water's surface.

Higher precipitation levels in the region and melting ice would decouple the surface from the deeper water layers.

Scientists aren't sure why the blob formed, though many blame a ridge of high pressure that brought sunnier weather and less mixing of surface water with colder, deeper water.

It is possible to have a berg as high out of water as it is deep below the surface; for if we imagine a large, solid lump of any regular shape, which has a very small sharp high pinnacle in the center, the height above water can easily equal the depth below.

«These releases could lead to a higher short - term concentration of certain pollutants in the air, soil and surface water bodies where the meltwater runs to,» worries Nazarenko.

«The most basic change was from very limited phosphorus availability to much higher phosphorus availability in surface waters of the ocean,» Reinhard said.

Higher sea surface temperatures led to a huge patch of warm water, dubbed «The Blob,» that appeared in the northern Pacific Ocean more than two years ago.

The name «water mould» refers to the fact that they thrive under conditions of high humidity and running surface water.

Water, for example, has a high surface tension, so it beads up, whereas alcohol, with a lower surface tension, tends to spread out.

If a planet consists of a lot of gas, the atmospheric pressure on the surface may be so high that water is not able to keep its liquid form.

Just as insects floating on a pond may be unaware of what's above or below the water's surface, our 3 - D world might be part of a higher - dimensional universe that we can't directly observe.

In 2011, in response to growing public concern about the possible environmental and human health effects of fracking wastewater, Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection requested that the discharge of fracking fluids and other unconventional oil and gas wastewater into surface waters be prohibited from central water - treatment facilities that release high salinity effluents.

Water loss increases as temperatures rise because plants use more water, and higher temperatures increase evaporative loss from the soil and from the water surface and lengthen the growing seWater loss increases as temperatures rise because plants use more water, and higher temperatures increase evaporative loss from the soil and from the water surface and lengthen the growing sewater, and higher temperatures increase evaporative loss from the soil and from the water surface and lengthen the growing sewater surface and lengthen the growing season.

If perchlorates are widespread on Mars at high concentrations, then pockets of liquid water might also be widespread below the planet's surface.

Ulijn's gel is composed of two simple synthetic peptide derivatives: (1) a component that binds to copies of itself with high directional preference, resulting in the spontaneous formation of nanoscale fibers when the molecules are dissolved in water, and (2) a surfactant - like molecule that associates with the fiber surface and presents simple, cell - compatible chemical groups.

This is because future arid cities will remain water - limited due to the lack of permeable surfaces in cities, while their rural neighbors are projected to be no longer «dry» due to higher rainfall.

It seems likely that the highly localised heating on the surface of nanoparticles somehow disrupts hydrogen bonding within the ethanol — water mixture, allowing greater separation of ethanol from water molecules at higher concentrations of ethanol.

Charlie's research told him that during El Niño weather cycles, the surface seawaters in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon, already heated to unusually high levels by greenhouse gas — induced warming, were being pulsed from a mass of ocean water known as the Western Pacific Warm Pool onto the reef's delicate living corals.

The spacecraft's instruments include a cosmic - ray telescope for measuring radiation, an altimeter to create high - resolution 3 - D surface renderings, radar to search for water ice, and a neutron detector to seek hydrogen (which some engineers have suggested mining as rocket fuel for a future moon base).

They pointed to a warmer atmosphere, which carries more water vapor to worsen rainstorms, as well as to higher ocean surface temperatures, which intensify hurricanes.

Because water expands as it warms, that heat also meant that sea surface heights were record high, measuring about 2.75 inches higher than at the beginning of the satellite altimeter record in 1993.

The study, led by Brown University geologist Brandon Johnson and published in Geophysical Research Letters, finds a high likelihood that there's more than 100 kilometers of liquid water beneath Pluto's surface.

Matula says this sudden illumination happens because during the first bout of sonoluminescence, temperatures in the bubble, which can be as high as several hundred thousand degrees — hotter than the sun's surface — do something to nitrogen and oxygen to make them form compounds such as nitrous oxide that dissolve in the surrounding water.

Using spectral readings from telescopes at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, Hand has found high levels of oxidative chemicals such as sulfate, oxygen, sulfur dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on Europa's surface, which are produced as ionizing radiation from Jupiter scours it, splitting apart water molecules and sulfur compounds in the uppermost layers of its ice.

Globs of decomposed fish flesh recently rose from deep in the Salton Sea, coagulated into spheres on the lake surface and surfed the waves to shore, leaving the high - water line littered with thousands of sticky balls of fish

Also, the pressure exerted on the water is so high that hydrogen bond interactions with the graphene surface are overcome by the attractive van der Waals atomic interaction that draws together the graphene planes.

In the journal Science, the scientists noted that water could flow sluggishly just beneath the surface and remain liquid owing to high concentrations of salt, which acts as antifreeze.