Sentences with phrase «of molten metal»

The calculations in those studies said that the resistivity of the molten metal in Earth's core, which is generated by this electron scattering process, would be too low, and thus the thermal conductivity too high, to allow thermal convection to generate the magnetic field.

Overtime is common, with workers tending smoldering vats of molten metal for up to 16 hours a shift.

The heat is transferred into a swirling vortex of molten metal, which then gets captured by a steam generator.

The different parts of these batteries are composed of molten metals or salts that have different densities and thus inherently form separate layers, much as oil floats on top of water.

Only these dolls contain 12 tons of molten metal and spin independently at astonishing speeds.

Past results suggested that large portions of molten metals stayed trapped in isolated pores between the grains.

According to research conducted by The University of Texas at Austin, evidence points to the downwards percolation of molten metal toward the center of the planet through tiny channels between grains of rock.

«With most metals that's difficult, because the bubbles want to rise to the surface of the molten metal,» says Johnson.

The circulation of this molten metal may produce the geomagnetic field that shields us from potentially lethal solar flares and cosmic rays.

The contraction of the molten metal as it cooled was slightly less than the expansion when it solidified.

Variations in the brightness of a planet drifting alone in space could come from clouds of molten metal passing in and out of view as it spins

His team was studying the properties of a liquid — in this case, drops of molten metal — freezing onto a surface.

Flaming cauldrons of molten metal have long been the primary venues for steel production.

Generated by the flow of molten metal in its core, the Earth's magnetic field ranges from a mere 25 microteslas near the equator to 65 microteslas toward the poles — making it more than a hundred times weaker than a refrigerator magnet.

The MESSENGER observations and data from the two earlier Mariner 10 flybys are consistent enough to describe a dipolar field with an active electrical dynamo in which the magnetic field is produced by electrical currents flowing in an outer core of molten metal (more discussion and images from MESSENGER's January 2008 flyby).

Use them wisely and your boat motor will be less likely to become a lump of molten metal.

Mercury Hg (PSN, XBLA)-- After its previous outings in Mercury Meltdown on the PSP and Mercury Meltdown Revolution on the Wii, the heroic blob of molten metal (Is it the same blob every time?)

In the run - up to his first major solo show — which opens in March at New York's blue - chip gallery Friedman Benda — he's reticent to reveal the true inspirations behind his bizarre but dazzling works, which look like hammered chunks of molten metal sourced from an alien planet.

Called Ramadas, after the Spanish word for the provisional shelters found in the early American Southwest, these works engage the friction between the rational display device of the frames and the mold-less, freeform pours of molten metal that circumvent the traditions of metal casting.

Chemicals are added to improve the quality of the molten metal which is then poured into moulds and cooled by a curtain of water and then rolled into very thin sheets, ready to be into more cans and can be back on the shelves in just 6 weeks.

WE also know, due to the recent acceleration of the earth's magnetic pole drift, that there is some kind of storm going on in the earth's core, causing a realignment of that huge mass of molten metal.

This is made using the float - glass system, in which molten glass is floated onto a bed of molten metal.

► A peacock is thrown out of his palace, so he steals all the metal in nearby cities and makes cannons in a huge, dark foundry filled with vats of molten metals and fire in barrels.