Sentences with phrase «of accumulated dust»

The power output of the rover's solar panels had been reduced by almost half because of a year's worth of accumulated dust.

After five years of accumulating dust and rust in deep storage, the 26 - foot - tall, tech - heavy Nam June Paik sculpture will soon take up residence on Walnut near Sixth Street.

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In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

Scientists are interested in dune fields isolated within large impact craters because their dark color suggests that the dust covering much of the rest of the planet does not accumulate there.

In this rotating disc of gas and dust, the material begins to accumulate and form larger and larger clumps, which finally become planets.

Now one team reports in ACS» journal Environmental Science & Technology that small amounts of house dust containing many of these compounds can spur fat cells to accumulate more triglycerides, or fat, in a lab dish.

All of these molecules stick to the surface of dust specks, accumulating icy layers over millions of years.

Extracts from seven of the 11 dust samples triggered the pre-adipocytes to develop into mature fat cells and accumulate triglycerides.

Even when the dust trap ceases to work, the dust accumulated in the trap would take millions of years to disperse providing ample time for the dust grains to grow larger.

They found that in regions where the amount of snowfall was low and any snow that did settle was sublimating away, enough dust would have accumulated to change the surface albedo sufficiently so that the Earth absorbed sunlight and thawed (Journal of Geophysical Research — Atmospheres, DOI: 10.1029 / 2009jd012007, in press).

Alternately, the planet can accumulate mass slowly as bits of dust collide and become pebbles, which collide to become boulders, which collide to become asteroids, and so on, until a rocky planetary core develops.

She said odour leads to discomfort and low productivity, and it is commonly believed that odour problems are due to a dirty air - conditioning system which contains accumulated dust and harbours different types of microbes.

To conduct the study, scientists asked residents of about 1200 homes scattered across the continental United States to swab dust that had accumulated in two places: their main external doorframe and an internal door frame in their home's main living space.

The new cores, drilled from Peru's Quelccaya Ice Cap, are special because most of their 1,800 - year history exists as clearly defined layers of light and dark: light from the accumulated snow of the wet season, and dark from the accumulated dust of the dry season.

Dust, ozone, and carbon can accumulate in valleys and basins, and mercury can be pulled to earth through atmospheric sinks that deposit it across large swaths of land.

The protoplanet is now between one - half and three times the mass of Jupiter but will undoubtedly continue to grow as it accumulates dust and gas from the disk.

In general, the dust is moving in toward the black hole, much of it accumulating onto a rotating outer ring or shell some 300 light - years outside the hole.

By contrast, Lance Grande's The Lost World of Fossil Lake is a photographic catalogue of wonders, detailing the fossils that accumulated at the bottom of the lake near the intersection of Wyoming, Utah and Colorado some 15 million years after the dinosaurs bit the dust following that famous asteroid impact in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.

The team of researchers analyzed deposits of wind - blown dust called red clay that accumulated between six million and two and a half million years ago in north central China, adjacent to the Tibetan plateau, and used them to reconstruct changing monsoon precipitation and temperature.

Gas and dust accumulated at the center increase the gravity and density of the core which generates energy to trigger nuclear fusion at 15 million degrees Celsius.

Dusts accumulating in solar panels and airborne particles could reduce the efficiency of solar energy production.

Within the disk, tiny dust grains accumulate layers of ice over thousands of years.

Dust clouds masking the Sun would have plunged the Earth into dark cold, followed by intense warming as clouds of greenhouse gases accumulated.

«The rings are very thin compared to the size of Pan, so the dust accumulates around its equator.»

Because of the stability of these points, dust and asteroids tend to accumulate in these regions.

It takes most of the caffeine away, rinses off any dust or debris the leaves may have accumulated, and also «wakes» the leaves up, creating space between them and allowing for a better brew.

I love the concept of open shelving and they look beautiful, however, I've often wondered about the dust that would accumulate on everything.

Not to mention the dust (and pet hair) mine seem to accumulate when not in use and the anxiety of making sure nothing catches on fire (dogs have a way of topping things).

This mise - en - scene is pure wunderkammer — so fixated on cramming every inch of the frame with knickknacks, piles of papers, obsolete technologies (production designer Maria Djurkovic must've been given one hell of a typewriter budget), and accumulated dust that the characters themselves begin to resemble rare, preserved specimens.

I needed to open the cluth cover and blew some air to remove the dust which was accumulated over the period of time and also cleaned the belt.

Between dust and nature, you car can accumulate very dangerous residuals or have major internal malfunctions if left improperly unattended for long periods of time.

When the dust settled the C6 accumulated a total of 812 points besting the CTS by 2 points.

And what dust has accumulated on the outside of the casing, you can wash away with the garden hose around back.

But the downside is the dust that accumulates at the sides of the hoods and this is not good for your cat's lungs.

During the day, a dog plays in different environments and may accumulate a lot of dust and debris in his coat including feces, especially if his coat is longer.

It will also help remove dirt from your Golden Retriever, thereby reducing the amount of baths she will need, and less dust will accumulate in your home!

Because of this breed's lack of eyelashes, they may develop accumulated dust in their eye region, resulting in excessive discharge.

I crossed the small parking lot to my tiny Chevy Sonic, feet crunching on the fresh dusting of snow that had accumulated.

Debris spilling out of the garbage can, a dog - eared poster for last Halloween's pet parade still hanging up after Memorial Day, dust and fur accumulating in an air vent... These easy fixes can help make your shelter a more welcoming place — but sometimes they're hard to see if you're not looking...

Stucchi defines himself as a «sculptor» even if a large part of his practice unfolds as minimal interventions: engraving leather with fire; shaping spaghetti pasta into forms; accumulating dust, etc..

In the course of almost 10 years of photography, founder Daniel Nanescu of SplitShire accumulated many images that were simply gathering dust.

283 consists of an issue of Flash Art in which the artist erased and accumulated the erasure dust from every illustration therein.

I mean, while the lines are reduced and simple, they are in fact very physical, and while the surfaces look spare, they have just enough of an accumulated history of wrinkles, dust, and undetectable stains to create their own patinas.

You can see it on most snowbanks in the spring in regions that get snow — the once - white snowbanks become nearly solid black as they shrink and expose more of the dust etc. that has accumulated over the winter.

The dust would have begun to accumulate on the ice caps, especially those of Eurasia and North America, which were close to deserts.

Another side effect of heat is that the normal solution of covering ones eyelashes with Vaseline did not stop coal dust accumulating there.

One of the drawbacks of that system is that all of the items on the shelves will accumulate dust and kitchen grease.

If that's not enough to intrigue new parents - to - be, then there's the added feature of being able to wash the mattress in the bathtub or shower, fully soaking it to get rid of mold, bedbugs, mites, dust, and whatever else might accumulate over the years.

I remember in the 80s getting copies of The Times and The Hindu every day, and they just accumulated dust at the endd of my desk, until I found an hour to flick through them.

A thorough vacuuming and cleaning of interior surfaces, including windows, will help to rid your vehicle of the dirt and dust accumulated over the winter months.