Sentences with phrase «lighter than the water»

America's first brand was Ivory soap born in 1878 with a fortuitous product benefit ---- it floated, because it was lighter than water, the result of a flaw in the manufacturing process.

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

Since it is lighter than water, the material floats to adsorb iodine and then sinks as it becomes heavier.

That's because as water heats up, it expands, becoming lighter than the water below it and less likely to sink.

It is «lighter than water», non-greasy, and once applied to the skin, immediately «evaporates» to give the face a skin like texture & feel, and so that your skin looks flawless.

Since oil is lighter than water, the oil will float on top and the water would drain out first.

Oil is lighter than water and coolant, so any trace of it is going to end up at the top, which is right where the cap is.

They have a strong evolutionary reason to make oil: as aquatic organisms, oil makes them lighter than water, allowing them to float and more readily access sunlight and the CO2 they need for photosynthesis.

The diluted bitumen that spilled from 6B was lighter than water and considered heavy crude oil.

Not exact matches

So in some cases, a lighter formulation may be your best bet And when it comes to a lightweight moisturizer, no product does it better than Neutrogena Hydro Boost Water Gel.

Two years ago, the house, constructed from untreated woods and equipped with water - saving laundry equipment and compact lighting, was the subject of a story in the Burlington Free Press under the headline «Greenhouse» — which raised the hackles of many hard - core Vermonters, including more than a few former Seventh Generation employees.

As of Monday, Anheuser - Busch — maker of popular beers like Budweiser, Bud Light, Shock Top, and Rolling Rock — had sent three truckloads with more than 155,000 cans of drinking water to areas affected by Harvey, which has brought historic flooding that is wreaking havoc on southeast Texas.

The array of claims around Alberta's crude is wide and varied: on the one hand, anti-Keystone groups contend that dilbit — i.e. diluted bitumen, thick oilsand crude mixed with light hydrocarbons that will allow it to flow through a pipeline — is more corrosive than other types of oil and sinks in water rather than floating, which makes it harder to clean rivers and lakes after a spill.

To ensure that their cockpit doors were bullet proof, airlines turned to Dyneema, a thermoplastic that is 15 times stronger than steel but light enough to float on water.

Conditions are otherwise favorable for intensification through Sunday, with a moist atmosphere, light wind shear less than 10 knots, and very warm ocean waters near 30 °C (86 °F).

The water, equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world's ocean, surrounds a huge, feeding black hole, called a quasar, more than 12 billion light - years away.

Besides, this is a lot more exciting than the usual lighter - meals that I eat — cereal, water and berries.

More than 600,000 energy - efficient LED lights illuminate the paths of Woodland Park Zoo through the displays of wild animals and exotic destinations, including «African Water Hole,» «Jungle Lights» and «Northern Lights.&lights illuminate the paths of Woodland Park Zoo through the displays of wild animals and exotic destinations, including «African Water Hole,» «Jungle Lights» and «Northern Lights.&Lights» and «Northern Lights.&Lights.»

Add the miso sauce to a mixing bowl and dilute with some of the cooking water until the sauce is light and creamy — more of a sauce than a paste.

Use beer instead of water for bigger flavor — a light lager isn't only cheaper than a hoppy or dark craft beer, it won't become overly bitter as it reduces.

XTECH pads are made in a small warehouse in New Jersey and fashioned out of military - grade, water - resistant foam, which makes them lighter than standard shoulder pads when soaked with sweat.

You can drive closer to the green in it because it is lighter on the ground than a normal golf cart and the best part is you can drive it over water.

* We think this might be because an oil droplet was trapped inside a food colouring droplet and sank, but as the edges of the food colouring droplet diffused into the water suddenly the drop became lighter than the surrounding water (thanks to the less dense oil at the centre) and floated upwards quickly...

Not only are Crane Drop Humidifiers stylish, but they are easy to use, whisper quiet, more efficient than a household light bulb, and include a built - in auto - shut - off feature that engages when the water tank is empty to ensure safety.

They are long enough to keep a toddler interested, light enough to pack more than one, and completely water - and dirt - proof.

Although Miliband defining himself more economically leftwards than previously does certainly provide some useful ripples of blue water between the Tories and Labour now (useful for both parties), Tory cabinet ministers resurrecting the ideological conflicts of the «80s and earlier may not do much to paint the party in a favourable light.

Dooley said cases of contaminated drinking water occur, like that found in Dimmock, Pa., where home owner can set well drinking water on fire, are caused when well bores are not properly sealed, allowing lighter - than - air methane gas to rise through wells, fissures in rock and into drinking wells.

Unlike other fish, which inflate air bladders to adjust their buoyancy on the fly, sharks rely on a skeleton of cartilage and a liver filled with lighter - than - water oil to help beat gravity's pull.

Lighter - toned bedrock that surrounds fractures and comprises high concentrations of silica — called «halos» — has been found in Gale crater on Mars, indicating that the planet had liquid water much longer than previously believed.

A research group led by Chengsi Pan, Postdoctoral Researcher, and Tsuyoshi Takata, NIMS Special Researcher, at the Global Research Center for Environment and Energy Based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN; Director - General: Kohei Uosaki) of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS; President: Sukekatsu Ushioda), and Kazunari Domen, a professor of the Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (President: Junichi Hamada) newly developed a water - splitting photocatalyst that is operable over a wider range of the visible light spectrum than before.

«Because the particle goes faster than the light [in this medium], it forms a bow wave like a speedboat in water.

Its more than 300 water tanks can detect cascades of particles initiated by high - energy packets of light called gamma rays.

More than 300 massive water tanks sit waiting at the site for cascades of particles initiated by high - energy packets of light called gamma rays — many of which have more than a million times the energy of a dental X-ray.

That's puzzling because mixtures of methane and ethane should be less viscous than water, meaning that even light winds can whip up waves.

Led by graduate student Sandra Rincon and her advisor, Haluk Beyenal, professor in the Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, the researchers developed a unique biofilm reactor that recycles gasses and uses less water and lower light than typical reactors.

To get a different view, astronomer Giovanna Tinetti and her colleagues at the European Space Agency and University College London focused instead on the light grazing the atmosphere of HD 189733 b. Tinetti had predicted that water would absorb more light at the longer wavelength of 5.8 microns (thousandths of a millimeter) than at 3.6 microns, in contrast with other molecules such as methane and ammonia.

Recently, a newly discovered Earth - sized planet orbiting Ross 128, a red dwarf star that is smaller and cooler than the sun located some 11 light years from Earth, was cited as a water candidate.

Patients looking at an open, well - lit and natural image of trees and water needed fewer painkillers than patients who had no picture or an abstract image.

Thick ice reflects incoming sunlight, but the melt ponds can transmit more than 50 % of the light to the waters below, promoting under - ice blooms, he says.

They seasoned the water with asymmetrical flakes of mica coated with titanium dioxide, which aligned with the flow and reflected laser light more in some directions than others, letting the researchers image the flows.

But not all the sunlight would be absorbed by this electrode: light with a wavelength longer than 600 nanometres isn't absorbed by the rust - coloured water in the top cell so would pass through to strike the lower electrode, powering the production of hydrogen.

Species that live in open water used platelets in their silvery skin to bend polarized light, obscuring their outlines more effectively than either near - shore species or humanmade mirrors, the researchers reported last week in Science.

Hyperion CEO John Deal insists that micro nukes will drastically reduce misery, disease, and poverty throughout the developing world by powering water - treatment systems (as well as lights, sewing machines, and everything else electrical) at less cost than a diesel generator.

Whenever electrically charged particles go faster through an insulating material (like water) than the speed of light would allow, they disrupt nearby electrons, causing a flash of light (known as Cherenkov radiation).

Still, that is probably a few years sooner than most other micro nukes can expect to get the nod; the NuScale reactor's light - water technology is quite similar to the industry - standard approach with which the NRC is intimately familiar.

The scientists chose them as detectors precisely because light moves more slowly in water than it does in air.

Travelling between the stars for a hundred light years or so, we would find ourselves moving between regions where the density of gas changes a millionfold — more extreme than the difference between air and water — and with changes in temperature from just a few degrees above absolute zero to over a million degrees.

This is trickier than it sounds, because light behaves differently in water and air, and the butterflyfish's brain has an extra cluster of neurons to process the extra information.

0.75 billion years ago — Green algae Green algae do better than red and brown algae in the strong light of shallow water.

Other than for the spear fisherman, these signals are congruent in the everyday life of most humans: If you want to grasp a glass on a table, there is no refraction of light through the water to be taken into account.