Sentences with phrase «of water droplets in»

How much does potential surface area for CO2 absorption vary with a one percent change in the number and nature of water droplets in the atmosphere?

a) decreases («dimming») until the 1980s, because atmospheric pollutants (aerosols) make the atmosphere more reflective and also clouds, by increasing the number of water droplets in the clouds, which in turn increases the amount of sunlight reflected, and subsequent

This argument hinges on the contention that more water vapor means greater density of water droplets in the active rising updraft of the storm clouds.

Literally this post created lots of water droplets in my mouth... its really a mouthwatering post, while reading not for a single time i thought its usefulness for the Moms for their kids rather i was busy to sort out which one i will try first.

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Heat approximately 1/2 a cup of oil in a large skillet until it spits when a water droplet is flicked at it.

summer squash may be stored in the refrigerator, unwashed as water droplets may cause tiny spots of decomposition.

I especially love the photo splashing in the sink — love the way you've captured the droplets of water.

For proper storage, be sure to keep spinach in the vegetable crisper of your refrigerator and do not let it become damp or collect droplets of water in the bag.

As the number of people sickened in an outbreak of Legionnaires» disease in the South Bronx climbed to 71 yesterday, health officials were still piecing together where the illness, a form of pneumonia spread through airborne water droplets, might have originated.

His most recent is a cylindrical «submarine,» about the size of a red blood cell and made of gold, nickel, platinum, and a polymer, that can collect oil droplets in water.

Now, materials scientist Vance Bergeron and co-workers at Rhodia Recherches in Saint Fons, France, have shown that adding only 0.1 grams of the springlike polymer polyethyleneoxide to a liter of water can prevent droplets from splashing.

Intriguingly, small droplets — which appeared to be water — were spotted in photos on the legs of the Phoenix lander.

If there is enough surfactant, water would retain the shape of droplets in oil, and vice versa.

Unlike traditional pipettes, which draw up liquids using suction, the liverwort relies on the surface tension of the water to hold droplets, says study coauthor Hirofumi Wada, a physicist at Ritsumeikan University in Kusatsu, Japan.

Once they are dispersed, the tiny droplets of oil are more likely to sink or remain suspended in deep water rather than floating to the surface and collecting in a continuous slick.

A passive, durable, and effective method of water collection, fog harvesting consists of catching the microscopic droplets of water suspended in the wind that make up fog.

Water droplets and ice crystals in the atmosphere condensed on the infusion of dust particles and settled into pouch - like formations due to wind currents.

Since the water droplets caught in a fog net move downward with gravity, Boreyko hypothesized that removing the horizontal wires of the net would alleviate some of the clogging.

Similar but larger particles are known to play a role in feeding powerful, fast - moving updrafts of air from the land surface to the atmosphere, creating the clouds that play a central role in the formation of water droplets that fall as rain.

To work out how to enable liquid metal to move autonomously, Professor Kourosh Kalantar - zadeh and his group from the School of Engineering at RMIT first immersed liquid metal droplets in water.

In spray - drying, a mixture of water and the material to be dried is forced through a sprinkler into a high - temperature drum, instantly evaporating the water droplets clinging to the material.

In a new twist, a group of South Korean researchers from Seoul National University and Dankook University report an anomalous water droplet - bouncing phenomenon generated by Leidenfrost levitation on nanotextured surfaces in Applied Physics Letters, from AIP PublishinIn a new twist, a group of South Korean researchers from Seoul National University and Dankook University report an anomalous water droplet - bouncing phenomenon generated by Leidenfrost levitation on nanotextured surfaces in Applied Physics Letters, from AIP Publishinin Applied Physics Letters, from AIP Publishing.

Droplets of water can form around particulate matter in the air.

The procedure, described in the latest issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, centers on making droplets, which are a mixture of two or more immiscible, or unmixable, liquids — in this case, oil, water, and alcohol.

IN THE CLOUDS Many of the water droplets that make up clouds get a size boost from carbon - containing molecules that assemble on the droplets» exterior, new research suggests.

Rime is white ice that forms when water droplets in fog freeze to the surfaces of objects.

Because of the force of surface tension, water droplets are normally held in tight spheres.

«New innovative method for delivering genes into cells: Modification of cell physiological function with novel parallelized electroporation of mammalian cells by using electrostatic manipulation in a water - in - oil droplet.»

At night the chamber is opened, allowing ambient air to diffuse through the porous MOF and water molecules to stick to its interior surfaces, gathering in groups of eight to form tiny cubic droplets.

Leeuwenhoek put his microscope collection — the largest of the mid-1600s — to good use, observing and studying minuscule creatures he surprisingly found living in water droplets, plants and animals, Yong said.

To copy the beetle's water - collecting design, materials scientist Michael Rubner, chemical engineer Robert Cohen, and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge created a rough coating so water repelling — or hydrophobic — that water sprayed onto it stood up in nearly spherical droplets.

In 2005, chemical engineer William Ristenpart of the University of California, Davis, was studying the effects of electric charge on droplets of water suspended in oiIn 2005, chemical engineer William Ristenpart of the University of California, Davis, was studying the effects of electric charge on droplets of water suspended in oiin oil.

In a clean cloud, the same spike of high water vapor could last a long time with only a few fortunate droplets in the vapor's vicinity to munch plentifully and grow much bigger than their neighborIn a clean cloud, the same spike of high water vapor could last a long time with only a few fortunate droplets in the vapor's vicinity to munch plentifully and grow much bigger than their neighborin the vapor's vicinity to munch plentifully and grow much bigger than their neighbors.

In the morning, the chamber is closed, and sunlight entering through a window on top of the device then heats up the MOF, which liberates the water droplets and drives them — as vapor — toward the cooler condenser.

But in the more stable stratosphere, conditions mitigate against the formation of clouds of water droplets.

Once dissolved in large water droplets and frozen, however, it falls back to Earth as acid rain in a matter of hours.

If a volcano ejects vast quantities of water which freezes in the upper atmosphere, some of this may combine with sulphur dioxide to form droplets of sulphuric acid that quickly rain back to Earth.

Scientists are keeping a close watch on variables that might affect life in the open ocean, including depleted oxygen levels caused by a feeding frenzy from oil - and gas - eating microbes, and the unknown effects of dispersants, which break the oil into droplets but may keep it suspended in the water.

When these forces meet, they launch a jet of water into the air that contains droplets ranging in size from one to 100 microns.

In a variety of experiments, using coloured water to distinguish the droplets, the team were able to stick droplets together, slice them like a gooey solid, and spell out the word «water» (see video, top).

In wine — which is about twice as viscous as water — the first (and largest) droplet ejected transports the wine's aroma above the rim of a glass and to the nose of its consumer, Liger - Belair said.

Putting water droplets on top coated them in just a single layer of silica.

For one test, the team suspended a particle of sodium at one node, and a droplet of water at another — and then brought them together in a burst of fizzing (see a video at bit.ly / LevitationVid).

Smaller, dispersed droplets are less threatening for two reasons: they present more surface area to the water, so ocean bacteria can degrade the oil faster; plus, the small droplets are much slower to rise to the surface, keeping the oil at sea instead of in coastal wetlands and giving the bacteria more time to do their magic.

In lab tests, Wang and colleagues proved the machines could move through water and pick up both olive oil and motor oil, transporting collections of droplets around.

Their videos (use the link below) capture varying scales of water nucleation occurring in the nano - structures and the absorption of the majority of an impacting rain droplet with little or no splashing.

After the dispersant is applied, the tiny droplets of oil follow the water currents in underwater plumes.

In foggy weather, most of the light that reaches the camera's sensor will have been reflected by airborne water droplets, not by the types of objects that autonomous vehicles need to avoid.

Effects of plasma channels on ice formation or precipitation processes could not be proved in typical storm clouds, where ice crystals and subcooled water droplets coexist.

The molecules in these miniscule droplets of water are grouped far more closely together than when they were in their gas phase, and exert less pressure — a fact that has some pretty cool physical implications.