Sentences with phrase «nitrogen bubbles in»

Biologists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution found bone damage consistent with decompression sickness, caused by nitrogen bubbles in the blood as an animal surfaces too quickly.

Echocardiograms showed one - fourth as many nitrogen bubbles in their hearts compared with readings in similar tests that were not preceded by heavy workouts.

Not exact matches

Saturn's main moon, Titan, has a «magic island» that might be made of streams of nitrogen bubbles, scientists report April 18 in Nature Astronomy.

Now a report in the 26 January Physical Review Letters suggests that searing hot temperatures generated inside the bubbles drive out nitrogen and oxygen, leaving behind a stunning light show produced by the trace gas argon.

Matula says this sudden illumination happens because during the first bout of sonoluminescence, temperatures in the bubble, which can be as high as several hundred thousand degrees — hotter than the sun's surface — do something to nitrogen and oxygen to make them form compounds such as nitrous oxide that dissolve in the surrounding water.

Simulations suggest that bubbling nitrogen may be the source of a blinking bright spot, or «magic island,» that Cassini spotted in the hydrocarbon sea Ligeia Mare on the moon Titan (SN: 5/13/17, p. 17).

Bright «magic islands», which appear briefly in the dark lakes before disappearing, are thought to be nitrogen bubbling out of solution.

When the star's ultraviolet radiation strikes the gases in the nebula, they heat up, giving out radiation ranging in wavelength from blue — emitted by hot oxygen in the bubble near the star — to yellow — emitted by hot hydrogen and nitrogen.

Flying after diving increases the risk of decompression sickness: because of the high concentration of nitrogen in your blood, gas bubbles can form within your body and generate health issues.

February 27 — March 5 I ♥ Neutrinos: You Can't See Them but They are Everywhere (70 mm Film Frames of Neutrino Movements — shot in 15 ft Bubble Chamber at Fermilab, Experiment 564 near Chicago — dunked in liquid nitrogen, neutrino movements events with invisible ink and decoder markers and highlighters, inked up by Monica Kogler and Jwest, film roll from Janet Conrad, MIT Professor of Physics) 2011, 37 seconds Roll of specialized film for scientific use of about 1,000 Images transferred to high - definition video on a hand - made telecine device, no sound Made while Jennifer West was an Artist in Residence at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA in 2011; Funded, in part, by the Nimoy Visual Artist Residencies program of the Nimoy Foundation.