Sentences with phrase «off of surface waters»

The overland water endorsement responds to losses that result from the accumulation or run off of surface waters, including torrential rainfall when water enters the property.

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Well before dawn the first day, I took a bus to the Tiber and stood on the bridge colonnaded with Bernini's angels, watching the sun rise, glinting orange off the still surface of the water.

Also, I just cut the circles out and put a dallopp of filling in each one, instead of picking them off the surface, then I dip my finger into a bowl of water and go around the edge so that the seam will stick together better when boiling, because seems like it doesn't stay together well enough if I don't and it opens up while boiling...

We would soak the beans overnight then boil the crap out of them the next day, then we had them in a large container and would run cool water over them, stirring them occasionally, and the skin would kind of float to the surface allowing us to skim it off.

At that point the beans will fall to the bottom of the pot and the skins will float near the surface of the water where they can be skimmed off.

Submerge them immediately in the bowl of water to rinse off excess surface starch.

Before cooking, regardless of method, skim off the any skins that floated to the surface, drain the soaking liquid, and then rinse them with clean water.

Dip a rice paper wrapper into warm water and immediately pull it out of the water, letting the excess moisture drip off before placing on a clean surface.

El Niño is an abnormal periodic warming of surface ocean water off the Pacific coast of South America.

While his mallard looks to standing on the pond surface, «I just got several shots of the duck as it rose up to shake off water,» Ghosh revealed.

The midwife or doctor might be able to scrape it off the surface of the water, and often times any meconium that is on the baby will come off in the water.

And there's the meticulously kept Zamboni, which employees need to figure out whether to just scrape the crust off the rink's surface or lay down a trail of water.

A floating ball seals off the snorkel when it gets below the surface of the water.

OUT, DAMNED SPOT Ink from permanent markers may seem nearly impossible to remove, but researchers have demonstrated that the surface tension of water can peel the ink off glass.

Water droplets roll off lotus leaves partly because of the roughness of their surface on the nanoscale.

«The warming surface waters cause large parts of the lake's floor to lose oxygen, killing off bottom - dwelling animals such as freshwater snails,» Cohen said.

«When it rains really hard, they can actually sip fresh water off the surface of the salt water.

Light from the stellar remnant, a neutron star located about 400 light - years away, is polarized, meaning that its electromagnetic waves are oriented preferentially in a particular direction like light that reflects off the surface of water (SN: 7/8/06, p. 24).

If the planet is only one Earth mass, Jenkins says, any life there might be near its end; the world would be on the verge of a runaway greenhouse effect, with gravity too weak to prevent its life - giving water from boiling off into space due to rising surface temperatures.

When the researchers switched the electric current off by deoxygenating the water, thereby removing the electron acceptor at the sediment surface, the depth of the hydrogen sulfide layer in the sediment rose in less than an hour, as deeper microbes could no longer consume it.

Piercing through water solution and reflecting off the calcite's surface like a mirror, focused X-rays changed the water's acidity level, starting a chain of reactions that lowered the pH and caused the calcite to dissolve.

Its tall, gangly, inefficient architecture makes it an environmental laggard among plants, one that sucks up water and fertilizer while leaching out gobs of nutrients that run off in rainfall, polluting surface waters from the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico.

They observed three types of ice losses, each with a distinctive and detailed sound signature: the splash of an ice block falling off into the water; the crack of a fragment sliding down the glacier's rough surface; and the soft thud of an underwater ice chunk breaking away and floating up, followed by a secondary impact as it surfaces.

El Nino's mass of warm water puts a lid on the normal currents of cold, deep water that typically rise to the surface along the equator and off the coast of Chile and Peru, said Stephanie Uz, ocean scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

When they get a tern or pelican to drop a fish, they plunge down and grab it off the surface of the water, which may have been how this bird got oiled.

In a matter of seconds, when you put the food in the fryer, water starts evaporating, vapors form and escape the surface, oil penetration starts, and heat begins to rise while at the same time there's evaporative cooling off at different points in the food.

The rotelle - shaped molecule — known as a «pi - conjugated spoked - wheel macrocycle» — acts the opposite of polarizing sunglasses, which screen out glare reflected off water and other surfaces and allow only direct sunlight to enter the eyes.

Recent surveys have found more than 2,300 - year - old colony of deep - water black coral 1,480 feet (451 meters) below the surface off Oahu — and deep - sea fishing threatens the long - lived, slow - reproducing species that inhabit the sea bottom such as the Patagonian toothfish (better known as Chilean sea bass).

When the team ran the model with rivers, the freshwater diluted the salty surface waters of the tropics and subtropics and shut off the deep currents.

Unlike traditional shipboard sonar measurements — which bounce waves off the seafloor and have mapped out a mere 20 percent of the planet's oceans — the satellites captured subtle variations in Earth's gravitational pull at the water's surface.

For both glasses, lay one end of a piece of string across an ice cube whose surface is about water level; let the other end of the string hang over the edge off the glass.

This suggests that urban run - off and the below - surface movement of water could be important contributors to the flow of drugs into streams.

Off the coast of Florida, a marine scientist finds herself out of air more than 100 feet beneath the water's surface.

But to scientists» surprise, plumes of oil extending several kilometers were floating roughly 1,000 meters beneath the surface, where the toxic compounds are literally washing off the oil and contaminating the water.

This new finding is the first observational evidence of water vapour being ejected off the moon's surface.

It is theorized that the process may be similar to what happens on comets, when water vapor lifts tiny particles of dust and ice off the surface.

It also would be far easier to get a water sample from Enceladus, which has plumes of water vapor, ice and particles shooting more than 300 miles off its surface, than from other moons, such as Jupiter's Europa, where a massive ocean is believed to be buried beneath a thick icy crust.

A crane lifts Doc Ricketts off the floor, the floor opens up to reveal the surface of the sea, and the machine is gently lowered into the water.

Taking turns with his shipmates, Wiens swung bright - yellow ocean bottom seismometers and hydrophones off the fantail, and lowered them gently to the water's surface, as the ship laid out a matrix of instruments for a seismic survey on the trench.

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have imaged what may be water vapour plumes erupting 125 miles (200 kilometres) off the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa.

Normally, the temperature of the Pacific Ocean's surface waters is about 7.8 ° Celsius (14 ° Fahrenheit) higher in the Western Pacific than the waters off South America.

During normal conditions, trade winds blow to the west across the tropical Pacific Ocean, piling up warm surface water in the western Pacific, and cold, deeper water rises up, or upwells, off the west coast of South America.

The Center for Ocean Solutions writes: «Between 1951 and 1993 zooplankton biomass off Southern California decreased by 80 % as a result of warming surface waters.»

On a related note, as I listened to NASA's press conference this afternoon, I couldn't help but reimagine Rutger Hauer's famous speech at the end of «Blade Runner»: «I've seen things you people wouldn't believe — attack ships on fire off the shoulders of Orion, water vapor erupting off the surface of Europa.»

Waste water treatment plants receive large amounts of microplastics emitted from households, industry and surface run - off in urban areas.

Climate change made it 175 times more likely that the surface waters of the Coral Sea, which off the Queensland coastline is home to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, would reach the record - breaking temperatures last month that bleached reefs, modeling analysis showed.

The seasonal distribution of marine Crenarchaeota in the oxic and ammonia - rich surface waters off Palmer Station, Antarctica [4], as well as a correlation of increasing crenarchaeal abundance with a nitrite (NO2 −) maximum are both consistent with the hypothesis that marine Crenarchaeota are capable of ammonia oxidation [25].

It's like taking the cap off a fire hydrant; all of the water that's been trapped underneath the surface comes bursting out with a vengeance.

This lowers the water retention levels of the hair shaft, and it makes it less likely for the surface cuticle of the hair to lift away (due to swelling of the hair shaft) and break off during combing.

Hardwearing natural rubber Removable insoles Water dispersing grip tread Textile lining A white wax film may appear on the surface of the boots but can be wiped off with a damp cloth.