Sentences with phrase «of volatile elements»

The Permanent Portfolio is made up of volatile elements, but it constructed in such a way that the portfolio as a whole is REMARKABLY non-volatile.

The 2.40:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer is a disciplined rendering of volatile elements, as evidenced by the «control group» of those two or three shots that don't induce seizures.

«As a result, Pluto still has more of its volatile elements, which have long since been blown off the inner planets by solar wind,» he said.

The even lower quantities of these volatile elements found on the Moon has long been claimed as evidence that it must have formed following a high - temperature, catastrophic giant impact.

Scientists at Southwest Research Institute combined dynamical, thermal, and chemical models of the Moon's formation to explain the relative lack of volatile elements in lunar rocks.

Southwest Research Institute scientists combined dynamical, thermal, and chemical models of the Moon's formation to explain the relative lack of volatile elements in lunar rocks, when compared to those of Earth.

«The results show that evaporation at high temperatures, similar to those at the beginning of planet formation, leads to the loss of volatile elements and to enrichment in heavy isotopes in the left over materials from the event,» said Day, a Scripps geoscientist and lead author of the study.

Not exact matches

Back when subdivisions of single - family homes were the driving element of the data, it was less volatile.

One encouraging element in the May numbers — for those who subscribe to the soft landing scenario — is that most of the gains came in the notoriously volatile condo market, which registered a 22.2 per cent jump in starts to 114,346 units annualized.

Overwhelmingly, these extremist elements have been from politically and economically volatile areas of the world.

In this collective smog the abortion issue acts as a kind of volatile precipitant, causing all the various elements of angst in church, state and society to condense and focus themselves with a terrible intensity.

In a new study, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego Professor James Day and colleagues examined the chemical composition of zinc and other volatile elements contained in the green - colored glass, called trinitite, which were radioactive materials formed under the extreme temperatures that resulted from the 1945 plutonium bomb explosion.

Pluto's geological activity is driven both by heat leaking from radioactive elements in its interior — a remnant of its birth more than 4 billion years ago — and by the volatile compounds that flit between its surface and its atmosphere.

These include the most volatile elements of crude oil, which is a mixture of many hydrocarbons, including naphthalene, benzene, and phenanthrene.

That's because, on top of bringing water, they are also believed to have delivered much of Earth's so - called volatile elements, namely, carbon, nitrogen, and noble gases, says Conel Alexander, a cosmochemist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C. To explain the abundance of these elements, there would have had to have been enough impacts to also deliver Earth's water, he says.

Scientists have long assumed that the heat from an impact of that size would cause hydrogen and other volatile elements to boil off into space, meaning the Moon must have started off completely dry.

In his work, Valentine included an illustration that, Principe suspected, depicted a method for rendering gold — normally one of the most stable elements — volatile.

Compared with meteorites, Earth and the other inner planets contain relatively low amounts of water and volatile elements, which were not abundant in the inner solar system during planet formation.

Actors are by nature volatile — alchemic creatures composed of incendiary elements, emotion and ego and envy.

Capturing invisible rays of light, ashes from human cremation, and the volatile reactions of primary elements on metal plates, melding aesthetic interests with natural science, this exhibition offers visitors a rare insight into the artist's most recent explorations of exposure, fragility and change.

The works in exhibition seek to exist between genres of figurative or abstract, highbrow or lowbrow, sentimental and academic, and all the other limiting binaries of interpretation to be both volatile and conservative, soulful and austere, containing elements that appeal to both sides in these paintings, or as the artist puts it, «ambassadors between the two mindsets.»

Of course they could use coal ash as an ore for about 25 elements, assuming the volatile ones like mercury would have boiled off.

Mediation and Collaborative law are two cost and time effective ways to end a marriage while adding an element of grace and dignity to what could morph from a civilized discussion into volatile, emotionally and financially draining situation if not handled properly Older couples appreciate the fact that time is extremely precious and they don't want to squander it on a lengthy and protracted court battle, nor do they wish to deplete their savings with retirement on the horizon.

The presence of collaborative lawyers adds an additional element of containment to potentially volatile cases.