Sentences with phrase «making seawater»

The equilibrium in seawater is very high, making seawater a great «sink»; CO2 is 34 times more soluble in water than air is soluble in water.

CO2 with water forms bicarbonates and carbonates and at the same time, the H + increases, making seawater less alkaline.

As if that wasn't bad enough, soaring levels of carbon dioxide are making seawater more acidic, which will make it harder and harder for coral polyps to build their rigid skeletons.

One - third of carbon dioxide emitted by humans enters the oceans, making seawater more acidic, the study noted.

Carbon dioxide can make seawater acidic through a relatively straightforward chemical process.

If enough fresh water from melting glaciers flows into the North Atlantic, this would make the seawater less salty and less dense, so that it couldn't sink anymore.

This causes a chemical reaction that makes seawater more acidic, especially in colder regions.

Rising levels of CO2 make seawater more acidic, leading to lower mineral saturation.

«Last time, we made the seawater less acidic, like it was 100 years ago, and this time, we added carbon dioxide to the water to make it more acidic, like it could be 100 years from now,» Caldeira explained.

Not exact matches

Water technology companies, which are the fastest - growing businesses, are finding ways to make the 99 % of the earth's water that we can't drink (seawater, waste water, polluted water) safe for use.

Between high costs, high energy use, and even the possibility of environmental destruction — seawater treatment plants can accidentally take in and kill small marine animals — continued research is needed to make the technology safer and more efficient.

Its location directly on the Gulf of Finland makes it easy to pump in ice - cold seawater to help cool the thousands of servers inside.

This makes desalinating seawater for agricultural use too costly to attract private investment.

As the underwater pressure increased, the seawater crushed the sub's heavy steel bulkheads as if they were made of cheap plastic.

This makes me happy: By creating a small electrical field that removes salts from seawater, chemists have introduced a new method for the desalination of seawater that consumes less energy and is dramatically simpler than conventional techniques.

According to one European report, researchers studied nearly 400 children ages 6 to 10 and found that a nasal spray made from seawater relieved cold symptoms faster than standard cold medications.

A shark - proof, glass - bottomed birthing pool was specially built, with the seawater filtered and heated to body temperature to make it safe and hygienic to give birth in.

They would add a liter of the tissue to two liters of seawater and shake the mixture 75 times — no more, no less — to make «the individual light - producing cells pop out of the tissue,» according to Bill Ward, a bioluminescence researcher at Rutgers University in New Jersey who was a post - doc in Cormier's laboratory.

Icebergs are made of fresh water, which is less dense than salty seawater.

Solar stills can make tainted water or seawater fit to drink.

The researchers believe these same structural elements make wood a superior material for generating clean freshwater from seawater.

If you succumb to the temptation to drink seawater, that just makes things worse.

Ships would spray seawater into clouds to create extra water droplets, making the clouds whiter.

Based on the speed of the silicates» reaction with seawater, Yardley believes that when CO2 is injected into high - silicate minerals like feldspar, it too will quickly react, making clays and carbonates that clog the pores of the rock and trap the gas.

Ours is the only group making hydrates from seawater....

To make matters worse, German and Japanese researchers recently increased CO2 levels in seawater and found that the greenhouse gas can damage some marine organisms directly: Squid slowly asphyxiated as the excess CO2 crowded out oxygen in their blood, and fish embryos and larvae were abnormally small and less likely to survive.

It's possible to produce hydrogen to power fuel cells by extracting the gas from seawater, but the electricity required to do it makes the process costly.

Some life rafts come equipped with devices to convert seawater to freshwater, but the amount of drinkable water they make is limited.

Red rock shrimp, which rely on camouflage as they remove parasites from moray eels, doubled the amount of calcium in the cuticle that makes up its exoskeleton when the pH level was reduced, meaning the seawater was more acidic.

That makes it vulnerable to collapse, because seawater can flow in underneath it and transform its edge into a floating ice shelf like Larsen B, which might then break up, freeing the ice behind it.

The Calera process essentially mimics marine cement, which is produced by coral when making their shells and reefs, taking the calcium and magnesium in seawater and using it to form carbonates at normal temperatures and pressures.

The reservoirs beneath us contain several feet of sand through which the seawater filters before making its way to a vast metal hangar, where it is transformed into enough drinking water to supply 1.5 million people.

Now, marine scientists are wondering whether a dramatic, global shift in seawater chemistry could make some deep - sea hermit crabs bolder — or rather, more foolhardy.

Arctic sea ice cover, made of frozen seawater that floats on top of the ocean, helps regulate the planet's temperature by reflecting solar energy back to space.

They envision zero - carbon power plants that run on fuel made from hydrogen isotopes in seawater and produce less waste than today's nuclear power plants.

It makes up about 75 per cent of the known Universe, and here on Earth there are more than 100 million tonnes of it in every cubic kilometre of seawater.

Skeletons and shells first came into being 550 million years ago as the chemical make - up of seawater changed, a study suggests.

«It links volcanism and trace elements in seawater to changing populations in the biosphere,» he says, «which in turn led to changes in the earth's atmosphere that made the rise of complex life - forms possible.»

A small decrease in pH affects the chemical equilibrium of seawater, making it harder for organisms to build calcium carbonate structures.

As atmospheric CO2 levels increase from burning fossil fuels, this carbon dioxide is soaked up by seawater and makes the oceans more acidic.

The study has overturned the notion that seawater only makes it about 100 km into the mantle before it is returned to Earth's surface through volcanic arcs, such as those forming the Pacific Ring of Fire that runs through the western America's, Japan and Tonga.

By employing a technique they developed that involves collecting methane from roughly ten thousand gallons of seawater per sample, they made a surprising discovery: ancient - sourced methane is indeed being released into the ocean; but very little survives to be emitted to the atmosphere, even at surprisingly shallow depths.

By comparison, the natural weathering of rocks results in about 10 Bq of radioactive potassium - 40 making it into each litre of seawater.

A new look inside 2,000 - year - old concrete — made from volcanic ash, lime (the product of baked limestone), and seawater — has provided new clues to the evolving chemistry and mineral cements that allow ancient harbor structures to withstand the test of time.

The analysis showed that acidic waters make it impossible for marine cement — limestone that precipitates out of the seawater as it flows against the coral reef — to form both between individual coral polyps as well as to anchor the entire reef ecosystem against the waves.

It suggests making coastal development more burdensome through more stringent building codes, siting requirements, and forcing real estate title holders to fully disclose insurance risks associated with storm surges or damage from seawater intrusion.

Billions of planktonic organisms, too tiny to be seen with the naked eye, make this valuable service possible: When carbon dioxide from the atmosphere dissolves in seawater, various species convert it to organic carbon and other organic components during photosynthesis.

The chemicals that make up life are mixed in the seawater.

The Uranium from Seawater program continues to make significant advancements, producing adsorbents with even higher capacities for grabbing uranium.

This process turns the seawater more acidic, making it more difficult for some marine life to live.