Sentences with phrase «into a water vapor»

Some of it is sublimation: an icy asteroid transforming directly into water vapor as it makes its way toward the sun.

The heat absorbed by water vapor and carbon dioxide is shared with all the nitrogen, oxygen and argon, because the latter molecules are always bumping into water vapor and carbon dioxide as they mix in the atmosphere.

Instead, they shrink when sunlight hits the surface and transforms ice into water vapor, a process called sublimation.

To show that those atoms are bonded together into water vapor or a similar substance, observations at other wavelengths would be needed.

Two more upcoming flybys will dive back into the water vapor plumes at the south pole and measure how much heat is emanating from the tiny moon's interior.

Usually contains platinum, palladium and / or rhodium, which acts as a catalyst in a chemical reaction that converts unburned hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and oxides of nitrogen into water vapor, carbon dioxide and other gases that are less toxic than untreated exhaust fumes

Catalytic Converter - Carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides are converted into water vapor and less harmful gases.

- Carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides are converted into water vapor and less harmful gases.

First, there was the 2017 Honda Clarity Fuel Cell, which converts gaseous hydrogen and air (oxygen) into water vapor plus enough electrons to drive the motor 366 miles.

Freeze drying converts solid water (ice) directly into water vapor, skipping the liquid phase completely (this is called sublimation).

«The product is first frozen, then the sublimation process converts the ice into water vapor, removing most of the moisture from the product while keeping the nutritional value virtually the same,» Milchman says, adding that this is a fairly recent innovation in food preservation, one that offers several benefits over other methods, such as using artificial preservatives or dehydration, which can affect the appearance and composition of products.

The water turns into water vapor, evaporates into gas, cools and condenses back into drops of water and forms clouds.

That is, if something causes an increase in the temperature this will cause an increase in the evaporation of water into water vapor.»

Losses from surface melting, water runoff, the breakup of glaciers into the ocean (calving), and the transformation of solid ice into water vapor (sublimation) exceed any gains through snowfall.2, 3,4,5 The Greenland ice sheet loses most of its mass on the perimeter, through a dozen fast - moving glaciers, including Helheim.5, 6

The Greenland ice sheet is shrinking.2, 3,4,5 Ice sheets grow through snowfall, and shrink through surface melting, water runoff, breakup into the ocean (calving), and direct transformation into water vapor (sublimation).

Especially as the supporters of CAGW have yet to explain how they expect CO2 to drive positive feedbacks into water vapor and how they can ignore that water vapor is a negative feedback system.

The moisture in the air is condensed into a water vapor and heated up, then it passes through the liquid nicotine.

Not exact matches

The «shot» is his equally revolutionary vapor - compression water distiller, which can make pure medicinal - grade water out of anything that's wet, even urine or toxic waste — water so clean you could inject it into your arm.

Warm - mist humidifiers are commonly called vaporizersor steam humidifiers, as they boil water first and release vapors into the air.

All humidifiers generally do the same thing, ie, emit water vapor into the air.

Ultrasonic Humidifier: In this case, instead of the fan there is a little metal diaphragm, which vibrates at ultrasonic frequency, breaking the water into small drops, which then becomes a vapor mist.

A mighty atmospheric river, fueled by water vapor from the Amazon and heat from the sun, flows across South America until it reaches the Andes and condenses into rain.

Each snow crystal forms when water vapor in the clouds condenses into ice.

It would provide important insight into how much SRM would reduce radiative heating, the concentration of water vapor in the stratosphere, and the processes that determine water vapor transport — which affects the concentration of ozone.

The resulting hot vapor then goes into vertical distillation tanks, which separate it into gases, light oils, heavy oils, water, and solid carbon.

Smoke wafting into a cloud provides countless tiny particles upon which water vapor can condense.

Early results show that as water vapor increased, thicker clouds would have reflected up to half of the sunlight back into space.

Rising temperatures would put more water vapor into the atmosphere, which then rains out, increasing the amount of dissolved carbon dioxide that chemically interacts with the rocks.

In 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied jets of water ice and vapor erupting into space from fissures on Enceladus, evidence of a salty ocean beneath the saturnian moon's placid icy surface.

Around the south pole of Enceladus — a 500 - kilometer - wide runt of a moon many expected to be rather inert and uninteresting — the orbiter saw tantalizing signs of activity — plumes of water vapor venting into space from fissures in the icy surface.

An ocean within Jupiter's icy moon Europa may be intermittently venting plumes of water vapor into outer space, according to a new study in the Astrophysical Journal.

Moisture that evaporates from the ocean tends to be lighter than water vapor released into the atmosphere by plants.

The temperature difference, as well as the high humidity inside the chamber, causes the vapor to condense as liquid water, which drips into a collector.

The isotope composition of water vapor, i.e. the ratio of light and heavy water molecules, provides insight into underlying mechanisms.

Water molecules floating freely in a vapor begin to arrange themselves into a crystalline solid when the temperature drops below freezing.

Methane in the gas breaks down into carbon dioxide and water vapor when it burns; the vapor helps turn titanium metal to TiO2.

Thermal distillation involves heat: Boiling water turns it into vapor — leaving the salt behind — that is collected and condensed back into water by cooling it down.

When adding the reduction agent ammonia formed by e.g. decomposition of urea, nitrogen oxides are converted into harmless nitrogen and water vapor over the catalytic converter.

The explosive force occurs when solid ammonium nitrate decomposes very rapidly into two gases, nitrous oxide and water vapor.

The impactor's kinetic energy is transformed into heat, which melts the permafrost, releasing methane and water vapor and expanding the size of the resulting crater by as much as a quarter.

Instead of dissipating into space, the infrared radiation that is absorbed by atmospheric water vapor or carbon dioxide produces heating, which in turn makes the earths surface warmer.

«Fueled with mostly ethanol, these race cars burn more fuel cleanly and release mainly carbon dioxide and water vapor into the air,» said Mathur.

And while material spewing from the icy visitor probably won't trigger the colossal meteor showers on the Red Planet that some scientists predicted, dust and water vapor may still slam into Mars, briefly heating up its atmosphere and threatening orbiting spacecraft.

In the harsh sunlight of the upper atmosphere, methane can react with other gases to form water vapor, which then breaks down into other chemicals that destroy ozone.

The «ice line» in any solar system, including TRAPPIST - 1's, is the distance from the star beyond which water exists as ice and can be accreted into a planet; inside the ice line water exists as vapor and will not be accreted.

The ensuing cataclysm sent a series of 600 - foot - high tsunamis crashing against the world's coastlines and injected plumes of superheated water vapor and aerosol particulates into the atmosphere.

Some details of the new model may prove to be controversial, particularly the degree to which water vapor can waft directly into the upper atmosphere.

For example, added water vapor pumped into the upper atmosphere from the chimney increases the amount of energy trapped there, in turn heating the planet further.

They had assumed that atmospheric water vapor had seeped into high - latitude martian soil and frozen between soil particles, forming a half - ice, half - soil mixture.

«LCROSS is planned to impact into the moon and see if they can vaporize any water ice and then detect the vapor plume.»