Sentences with phrase «of holding more water»

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With hydro, you can store more water behind a dam, but just a fraction of what the snowpack holds.

The good news for investors is the promise held out by a growing cadre of companies working to take on that infrastructure upgrade, turning unusable water into something we can drink and making water consumption more efficient.

The dictum of induced demand holds no water in this part of the Lone Star State: if roads are crowded, the Houston approach is to build more.

Warmer air increases the evaporation rate of water, and for every degree Celsius increase in temperature, a parcel of air can hold 7 percent more water.

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Boar bristle will absorb water, whereas badger will shed water; badger, however can hold more water than boar, likely because of surface tension and water's attraction to the greater quantity of the finer hairs in the badger brush.

There are some immature, insecure people who demand that * everyone * adhere to their point of view because they themselves don't, in their heart of hearts, believe that said view holds any water and are seeking confirmation via popularity, because if more people believe it, it MUST be correct.

Yet please don't get me wrong — it is not MY faith — it is the vibrant love of God that pours into me and naturally out like a hillside pool fed by a waterfall — it is held for a moment but as more water / love comes in, so some has to leave!

More conservative theologians, on the other hand, believed that his constant criticisms of Bibelglaube (faith in the Bible rather than the one to whom the Bible witnesses), «credo - Credo» (intellectual assent to the tenets of the Creed) and faith as a bloss Fürwahrhalten etner Lehre (a mere holding of certain doctrines to be true) risked throwing the baby out with the bath water.

The fibers trap more than nine times the weight of the seed in water, and hold it close to the outside.

You will need to find a pan that will comfortably hold your small baking dish while maintaining an inch or more of space around the sides for the water.

Add the water drained from the can of chickpeas into a large bowl and use an electric hand - held or stand mixer to whisk for approximately 5 minutes until it's more than doubled in size, white and foamy.

Add 3/4 cup of water to start and add more, if needed, until the ingredients hold together.

Anecdotally, this is how I made Squash Risotto for four: * In a large saucepan melt 2 tablespoons of butter and sauté 1/4 cup finely chopped onion, scallion or leek for a few minutes / then add 1 1/2 cups Arborio rice to the mix / continue to sauté for five minutes along with a finely chopped teaspoon of sage or rosemary, stirring often / meanwhile, in another saucepan heat 2 1/2 cups of stock or plain water to a simmer and hold / add 1/2 cup white wine to the rice mix and let it cook away until liquid almost disappears / add a teaspoon of salt and more if needed when risotto is done / begin adding simmering liquid 1/2 cupful at a time, stirring until liquid is nearly cooked away / add additional liquid 1/2 cup at a time and, once again, stir and allow to cook until liquid is almost gone before adding more.

I used them with the same amound of water and they turned into much more of a paste that held everything together.

The sale will enable the CEWH to achieve better environmental outcomes through a more flexible use of the Commonwealth's portfolio of water holdings.

The possibilities really are endless - I think the key is picking ingredients that won't sink to the bottom of the batter and that don't hold too much more water than the original ingredients....

well, we may have been a more physical side than ManC in our last game, but for most of the season beore that i don't think that statement holds much water.

Hummels over Per any day anytime and I think as stated, Per seems more of a team player... But then again, Wenger buys who Wenger buys so all these speculation hold no water

It could just be one of the many Arsenal transfer rumours we see all the time that claim one thing while actually holding less water than a sieve, but if not then Arsenal fans have cause to be very worried indeed and if the transfer of our Chile international striker Alexis Sanchez to the Italian champions Juventus really does happen this summer then all that anger towards Arsene Wenger and his transfer policy will soon rear it's ugly head once more.

Part of me thinks that AFC have put transfers on hold until they can raise more funds and go back with one last try for Lemar, I know it looks dead in the water because Monaco have raised their asking price but it might be the fact we do not have that money and without that money it is dead... but we get the money and it could be on again.

Or you can use a hot water method: either place the milk in a bowl of hot water until thawed and heated, or hold it under running hot water until it has no more ice crystals (just make sure the container is watertight so you don't inadvertently add water to the pumped milk).

This product is on the smaller side, holding just 100 ml of water and providing around 10 minutes... MORE of steam per fill.

Toddlers don't understand how to hold their breath underwater, and therefore are more prone to swallowing water, which is one of the main ways recreational water illnesses are spread.

Its amazing to me that power of suggestion holds more water than scientific fact.

This may take the form of glasses of water, foot massages, bringing you up a meal, holding the baby whilst you have a shower, talking over the birth experience, postnatal exercises, chatting about baby names, offering you the evidence for episiotomy or scar healing and much more.

Its comforting to know im not the only one, I was set to be induced with my fifth child on jan 1, went to hospital at 5 am, put on pittosin at 6, dialed slowly, and had painful contractions, Dr broke my water at 11, contractions even more painful, got the epidural at 12, labor did not progress, was dialated 3 cm all day, @ 8 pm,, Dr took me off pittosin for an hour to see if I would progress if we started over again, at 9 they hooked me up again, all night and just progressed to a 4, that next morning, still nothing, finally Dr said we need to do a c section, since my water was broken earlier the previous day, he was worried about infection, finally went to operating rm, it was so cold, I was shaking and crying, I was so scared, btw my previous 4 children were vaginal births, I felt so guilty, thinking it was my fault my labor did nt progress.Finally I had her, when the Dr held her up for me to see, I started bawling, she was perfect, it was very emotional, she weighed 6 lb 4oz and 18in, Im very proud of her, and myself

Since it is a little smaller than many other options, you will only be able to hold a little more than a single cup of water in the reservoir, but you can choose from 0.75, 1, and 1.25 cup brewing sizes.

What's more, Nespresso Pixie can hold ten used capsules in a removable water tank of 24 ounces.

Some inflatable pools only hold about 2 feet of water while framed pools hold a little more, some up to 4 feet.

Think about it: a rectangular tank can hold a lot more media and water than a circular one of about the same size.

«Understanding which factors lead to more or less [precipitation] and how this happens is critical to developing infrastructure to capture more water, reduce flooding, et cetera,» Kimberly Prather, a study author who holds appointments at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the department of chemistry and biochemistry at UC San Diego, wrote in an email.

People given (falsely) high scores of implicit racism were more likely to choose the superworms (30 versus 4 percent) and were more likely to hold their hands in near - freezing water (63 versus 9 percent)-- even though many said they doubted the e-mail threat.

A rather straightforward calculation showed that doubling the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere... which would arrive in the late 21st century if no steps were taken to curb emissions... should raise the temperature of the surface roughly one degree C. However, a warmer atmosphere would hold more water vapor, which ought to cause another degree or so of warming.

At the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers conference, held in the Philippines in June, more than 100 delegates representing fishing people from 30 countries advocated a complete ban on bottom (demersal) trawling in tropical waters.

Heaving water holds 40 times more energy than air moving at the same speed, and sea states change more slowly than breezes, making it easier for utilities to predict the availability of energy.

But if the moon was able to hold on to some of its water despite its violent run - in with a second moon, this raises the possibility of more worlds retaining more water than we ever assumed.

«Periods of breath holding, called apneas, were longer and happened more often in pups that chose to be in the water,» says Bennett.

With a volume of more than 700,000 cubic miles and an average thickness of 4,000 feet, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) holds enough water to raise sea levels by 15 to 20 feet — and it is already sweating off 130 billion tons of ice per year.

One thing is already clear: A warmer global atmosphere currently holds about 3 to 5 percent more water vapor than it did at the beginning of the 20th century, and that can contribute to heavier precipitation.

Totten Glacier, the largest glacier in East Antarctica, is being melted from below by warm water that reaches the ice when winds over the ocean are strong — a cause for concern because the glacier holds more than 11 feet of sea level rise and acts as a plug that helps lock in the ice of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

That deep water is not only rich in nutrients, it also has relatively high concentrations of carbon dioxide, both because it is cold (cold water can absorb and hold more carbon dioxide than warm water) and because the decomposition of organic matter that sinks into the depths releases carbon dioxide.

Indeed, conventional wisdom held that higher levels of aerosol pollution in the atmosphere should cool the earth's climate because aerosols can increase cloudiness; they not only reduce precipitation, which raises the water content in clouds, but they also increase the size of the individual water droplets, which in turn causes more warming sunlight to be reflected back into space.

NASA's first workshop on human landing sites, held in Houston in October 2015, identified more than 40 «exploration zones» within 50 degrees latitude of the equator, where astronauts could do science and potentially access raw materials for building and life support, including water.

It was bad enough to learn last year that the ice sheets of West Antarctica were headed toward inevitable collapse in just a few centuries and that the world would have to contend with the more than 3 meters of water they hold.

Scientists have found that the Totten Glacier, a keystone to East Antarctica's ice sheets and the more than 3 meters of water they hold, is susceptible to two troughs of warm water that could be accelerating its melting from underneath.

By analyzing global water vapor and temperature satellite data for the lower atmosphere, Texas A&M University atmospheric scientist Andrew Dessler and his colleagues found that warming driven by carbon dioxide and other gases allowed the air to hold more moisture, increasing the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.

The authors found that this increase resulted in part from the ability of a warmer atmosphere to hold more water.

MAUNA KEA, HI — A primitive ocean on Mars once held more water than Earth's Arctic Ocean, according to NASA scientists who measured signatures of water in the planet's atmosphere using the most powerful telescopes on Earth including the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii.

NASA scientists have determined that a primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth's Arctic Ocean and that the Red Planet has lost 87 percent of that water to space.