Sentences with phrase «ice structures»

Other exotic ice structures are made in the lab.

Trapped deep in the ocean floor are huge quantities of methane hydrates frozen in ice structures called clathrates.

And an underground cache of the gas could be locked up in ice structures called clathrates.

Under high pressures, the variety of possible ice structures shrinks, just as the space between its hydrogen - bonded oxygen atoms does as the ice grows denser.

It's a great book if you enjoy endless paragraphs of someone describing ice structures using mountaineering terms, but there's a common theme about why it's a good idea to just trust your instincts sometimes when it comes to completely nonsensical risk - taking.

In time, other researchers came calling, clamoring for help with everything from studies of glacial ice structure to modeling carbon dioxide frost on Mars.

On the nanometer scale, we observed the coexistence of ordered surface water and crystallite - like ice structures, evident in the superposition of Bragg spots and Debye - Scherrer rings.

«Gerardo Algara - Siller and Ossi Lehtinen carried out the experiment, and imaged the unknown ice structure between graphene sheets,» said Ulm University professor Ute Kaiser, who led the German side of the collaboration.

This image was recently published in The Astrophysical Journal and provides a glimpse of the molecular organization of such tiny ice structures.

He designed the new artificial magnetic ice structure and built custom instrumentation for the research.

The hexagons assemble into parallel sheets, giving ice a structure somewhat akin to graphite.

For example, many of the ice platforms in the level crumble if jumped on more than twice, and objects such as Barrel Cannons and climbable, vine - covered walls are often connected to crumbling ice structures.

The goal is to aim your slingshot, with different weapons, at the intricately designed ice structures.

Phendrana drifts is like the Antartica with ice adapted monsters, cold pools, grand ice structures with statues and history.

When pressure is increased to more than about 20,000 times Earth's atmosphere (2 gigapascals), this number of possible ice structures is reduced to just two — ice VII and ice VIII.

The island, which had detached itself from the ice shelf on Ellesmore Island in the Canadian arctic archipelago, was used as a laboratory for seismic studies of the Arctic Ocean floor, as well as charting currents, pollution, winds and ice structure.

It generate tensions that explode when the ice structure is thinning.

The ice structures — which look like something straight out of a Disney movie — are maintained by hand and grown every winter.

These are ubiquitous during the late summer around the Arctic until they either drain (if the ice structure weakens) or freeze over again in the fall.

However, it seems to be a robust feature and not a measurement artefact, as we find no alteration in our CO2 record due to (1) enlarged amounts of impurities12, (2) increasing temperature with depth -LRB--7.2 °C at 3060m to -4.2 °C at 3,200 m, pressure melting point: -2.3 °C) or (3) changes in the ice structure.