Sentences with phrase «how ice forms»

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Seriously though, how can anyone not love pumpkin in all its sweet shapes and forms, and curries, and pies, and ice creams, and puddings of all sorts, and in its simplest purest form — just roasted?!
After wins you're more likely to see these fans on opposing teams forums, bragging, saying «i'm better than you» but after losses they'll poke out their heads and act like a baby who's dropped their ice - cream and tell you everything wrong with the club, the players, and how the team should be gutted for the most in - form players elsewhere.
Says Jordan, «We used the CRaTER measurements to get a handle on how much molecular hydrogen has been formed from the water ice via charged particles.»
Libbrecht explains that it wasn't until the development of X-ray crystallography in the 1920s that researchers were able to study the atomic structure of ice crystals to determine how they formed.
Not much is known about ice away from Mars's poles, so Mauna Kea's ice is a precious window on how and why it forms.
But with only a slight change in how the water molecules are arranged in ice, the crystals can take on a cubic form.
Ice is thought to have formed beyond a «snow line» somewhere in the asteroid belt, but it is not clear how common it is in asteroids because their surface ice rapidly vaporisIce is thought to have formed beyond a «snow line» somewhere in the asteroid belt, but it is not clear how common it is in asteroids because their surface ice rapidly vaporisice rapidly vaporises.
A few drops froze at 23ºF, but not frequently enough to explain how efficiently ice crystals form in warm clouds.
I spend a lot of time studying the ice sheets at the bottom of the planet — how they form and how they collapse.
Mapping this buried range will help scientists understand how glaciers formed in Antarctica as well as how today's ice sheets interact with the ground below.
Making thin films out of semiconducting materials is analogous to how ice grows on a windowpane: When the conditions are just right, the semiconductor grows in flat crystals that slowly fuse together, eventually forming a continuous film.
To find out the lake's age and how it formed, researchers took ice cores down to a depth of 16 meters.
How the glassy grains formed on Mars is unknown, but Horgan says magma from Martian volcanoes interacting with water ice and snow is a possibility.
What's more, knowing which planets formed inside and outside of the ice line allowed the team to quantify for the first time how much migration took place.
Also in the mid-1990s, another group of scientists proposed the now widely accepted mechanism for how lakes can form under glaciers: Heat radiating from Earth's interior is trapped under the thick, insulating ice sheet, and pressure from the weight of all the ice above it lowers the melting point of the ice at the bottom.
One of the big mysteries in the scientific world is how the ice sheets of Antarctica formed so rapidly about 34 million years ago, at the boundary between the Eocene and Oligocene epochs.
Meierhenrich found what he needed at Leiden University in the Netherlands, where astrochemists were making artificial cometary ice to test how these dirty snowballs form.
Hawkings and his collaborators spent three months in 2012 and 2013 gathering water samples and measuring the flow of water from the 600 - square - kilometer (230 - square - mile) Leverett Glacier and the smaller, 36 - square - kilometer (14 - square - mile) Kiattuut Sermiat Glacier in Greenland as part of a Natural Environment Research Council - funded project to understand how much phosphorus, in various forms, was escaping from the ice sheet over time and draining into the sea.
That's different from how the ice giants in Earth's solar system, Neptune and Uranus, formed, suggesting possible new insights into different ways planetary systems originate throughout the galaxy.
These models accurately predict how much water was locked up in the form of ice early in the history of our solar system, billions of years ago, before making its way to Earth.
The discovery, involving cold, extra salty water — brine — that forms within openings in sea ice, adds to our understanding of how ice sheets interact with the ocean, and may improve our ability to forecast and prepare for future sea level rise.
But how such ice would be formed at the temperatures found in planetary interiors has remained mysterious.
Among the many discoveries on matter at high pressure that garnered him the Nobel Prize in 1946, scientist Percy Bridgman discovered five different crystalline forms of water ice, ushering in more than 100 years of research into how ice behaves under extreme conditions.
The model is also applicable for describing how water droplets collide with aircraft and form ice, which is a safety hazard.
Miller and colleagues came to these conclusions by looking at radiocarbon dates — based on how much of the radioactive form of carbon they contain — from dead plants revealed by melting ice on Baffin Island, in the Canadian Arctic.
Analyses of images from the New Horizon mission and modelling of the evolution of the ice cap help to explain how this polar feature was formed.
Understanding how dust particles are affected by each type of pollution will shed light for researchers to account for all types of pollution when computing which particles may form ice crystals in cold clouds.
Results: A team led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) researchers has presented two processes, or explanations, for how extra ice crystals form in mixed - phase clouds — clouds containing both water and ice — which are prevalent throughout the Arctic.
Scientists are working to understand their underlying processes, such as which particle surface properties encourage or discourage ice formation, called nucleation, so they can accurately simulate how, where, and when clouds are formed.
Feb. 5, 2018 - Among the many discoveries on matter at high pressure that garnered him the Nobel Prize in 1946, scientist Percy Bridgman discovered five different crystalline forms of water ice, ushering in more than 100 years of research into how ice behaves under extreme conditions.
One theory for how giant planets form is that they start with a seed of rock and ice.
This April was the lakes» iciest on record after a near - record winter, and the season has been notable for how early ice formed and how long it's lingered.
Astronomers believe that comets, which are «dirty snowballs» composed of ice, rock, and dust, are the remnants of the early Solar System and can tell us a great deal about how the planets formed.
I haven't slept well for the last couple of nights, my little princess is fighting with flu and ear infection, the weather has gone all cold on us in Helsinki, the temperatures have dropped down 10 - 11 °C in less than 24 hours, I also had my last filling and tooth «cover» done yesterday, so once again I have looked like a tomato and felt crappy, etc... Not the best week and sometimes, no matter how positive you try to think and deal with everything, sometimes you just need this one day to simply feel like * hit, cry it out if you have to and have a nice comfort in form of chocolate bar or an ice cream sundae... That's what this day will serve me for and hopefully tomorrow will be much better.
HOW: Use a shovel or brush to clear off accumulated snow and to chip away at already formed ice.
HOW: For ice - dams on your roof and gutters, use a shovel to clear off accumulated snow and to chip away at already formed ice.
To walk on ice, which may have been formed long before Europeans discovered New Zealand makes you realize just how short a human lifespan is in comparison to the eons of time it takes to shape a landscape.
Sabelor10 claims that the phenomenon is caused by suspended ice crystals, but regardless of how it was formed, it was still neat enough for him to share it with Hideo Kojima, who then retweeted the photo to his millions of Twitter followers.
I understand that this blue color is the result of how the ice was formed.
She describes how the first hole (and presumably the new one) appear to have formed as methane is released from a warming mix of ice, water and soil, building up pressure that explosively pushed out the top of the hole, heaving chunks of earth many yards in some directions.
The wild exaggerations of both the direct CO2 warming and the supposedly more serious knock - on warming are rooted in an untruth: the falsehood that scientists know enough about how clouds form, how thunderstorms work, how air and ocean currents flow, how ice sheets behave, how soot in the air behaves.
One of the interesting things looking at sea ice from cryosphere today, is how rare it is now for ice to form in much of the Baltic (last year was the first year in a long time that it got very far south) and other peripheral areas.
According to tribal legend, a godlike creator in the form of a raven turned one of every ten black bears white to remind humankind how clean the Earth was during the Ice Age.
Francis, who wasn't involved with either study, is one of the main proponents of an idea that by altering how much heat the ocean lets out, sea ice melt and Arctic warming can also change atmospheric circulation patterns, in particular by making the jet stream form larger peaks, or highs, and troughs, or lows.
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A study in Nature Geoscience describes how compiling previously reported measurements made at 733 northern water bodies − from small ponds formed by beavers to large lakes formed by permafrost thaw or ice - sheets — has enabled researchers to estimate emissions over large scales more accurately.
Scientists measured how, within hours of the lakes forming, the vast ice sheets rose up, as if floating on water, and slid towards the ocean.
This «education» takes many forms: from blatant propaganda, like the UK government's  # 6 million «drowning puppy» ad campaign, the Obama administration's recent Climate Assessment Report and the one released by a group of compliant senior US military figures calling themselves CNA Military Advisory Board, to more subtle brainwashing ranging from school trips to wind farms and ice cream containers with pictures of wind farms on the side and oil company adverts illustrated with wind farms (to show they're not just «all about oil») to, well, pretty much everything these days from supermarket delivery vehicles boasting about how much biofuel they use to Greenpeace campaign ads involving polar bears to Roger Harrabin's reporting for the BBC to Showtime's Years Of Living Dangerously...
Such «ice balls» have even formed on lake water that was 40 degrees, how is this possible at temperatures far above the normal freezing point?
But deep water production by convection may be less, depending on how much NADW is Arctic in origin and how much is simply recirculated Antarctic bottom water (extremely dense water, formed as brine under the sea ice around polynas offshore of Antarctica and sliding down the continental shelf into the depths without much mixing, creates a giant pool of dense water extending all the way up the bottom of the Atlantic to about 60 ° N).
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