Capturing most of
the precipitated water, it yields ~ 30 tons / sec of fresh water.
The ocean is the world's largest reservoir of water, providing more than 75 % of Earth's evaporated and
precipitated water.
Trees incorporate the depleted oxygen into their cellulose, and the longleaf pine in particular relies heavily on
precipitated water, so isotope variations should show up strongly between rings.
Precipitating water softeners settle out the minerals that make water hard, and are used only in the wash water (not the rinse water).
This is temperature dependent, is independent of the isotopic composition of
the precipitating water (seawater, freshwater etc.) and thus independent of storm tracks, the position of the ITCZ, monsoon strength etc..
where T is the mean temperature in the air column, and P ≡ wNγ (0) = wNv (0) is the upwelling flux of water vapor (mol m − 2 s − 1), which, in the stationary state and assuming complete condensation, is equal to the downward flux of
precipitating water.
Not exact matches
This moisture - laden air then
precipitates as rainfall during a hurricane, dissipating the heat energy from the
water.
Non
precipitating packaged
water softeners or conditioners can be used to control small amounts of iron in the wash
water.
TAML treatment at this pH caused BPA to assemble into larger units called oligomers, which clump together and
precipitate out of the
water.
That voltage is also higher than what is needed to induce the cobalt to
precipitate out of the solution and form the cobalt phosphide catalyst, which means when the bionic leaf is running there are always enough electrons around to induce the catalyst's formation — and therefore no excess metal left to poison the microbes or bring the bionic leaf's
water - splitting to a halt.
These proteins can be used to
precipitate gold from a solution, craft aluminum nanowires to form semiconductors, or soak up dyes or heavy metals from contaminated
water, according to researchers.
What is even more intriguing about this stuff is that because the minerals
precipitated from liquid
water, they may preserve what was once in that
water.
Earlier work has shown that these rocks from Canada only contain chemical elements that directly
precipitated from ocean
water.
However, some vestiges of ancient organisms might be preserved in mineral deposits that trapped organic material as they
precipitated out of evaporating
water.
Due to the cooling dissolved material now partially
precipitates as fine particles, which are carried by the warm
water to the ocean's surface.
Scientists thought the iron had entered the ocean from hot, mineral - rich
water released at mid-ocean vents that then
precipitated to the ocean floor.
The presence of these particles helps to seed clouds by providing sites on which
water droplets can condense, but very small particles, the scientists found, actually decrease the
precipitating efficiency of clouds, meaning it rains less.
The ammonia reacts with
water to form ammonium hydroxide, which makes any nearby calcium
precipitate out as calcium carbonate crystals, or limestone.
This aridity caused dissolved minerals in the ground
water to
precipitate into the vast mineral deposits seen today, creating a landscape unlike anywhere else in the world.
The analysis showed that acidic
waters make it impossible for marine cement — limestone that
precipitates out of the seawater as it flows against the coral reef — to form both between individual coral polyps as well as to anchor the entire reef ecosystem against the waves.
NASA said the scuff had strong evidence of magnesium sulfate, a substance expected to
precipitate from
water.
Water constantly moves through a vast global cycle, evaporating from lakes and oceans, forming clouds,
precipitating as rain or snow, then flowing back down to the ocean.
My inclination for science increased during high - school, thanks to spectacular experiments in the chemistry laboratory — so many different thoughts on nature and behaviour of matter: the replacement of a metal by another in the reaction of iron and copper sulfate, the formation of a visible solid by the combination of two liquid solutions with the formation of a
precipitate and the violent reaction of alkali metals with
water were some of the things that impressed me in those days.
As this hot, mineral - rich
water comes into contact with the cold bottom
water, these minerals
precipitate and form deposits on the surrounding rocks.
A lot of the processes are the same as what's imagined is happening on Enceladus; minerals are dissolved in hot
water that spews up into the cold ocean,
precipitating out.
It is closed for practical purposes, but some of the
water vapour in the atmosphere
precipitates out.
The oxalate itself is
water soluble, but once it binds with a metal ion it becomes insoluble and then
precipitates out to be deposited in tissue.
So to sum up in simple terms, nearly ten times as much creatine is needed in stipulated quantity of
water for sediment or
precipitate to form, the more is the likelihood of that creatine nitrate to be more appetizing as compared to creatine monohydrate when consumed.
The clock ticks as you try to make your way at full speed through an intricate maze and not
precipitate into never - ending
waters!
[1] CO2 absorbs IR, is the main GHG, human emissions are increasing its concentration in the atmosphere, raising temperatures globally; the second GHG,
water vapor, exists in equilibrium with
water / ice, would
precipitate out if not for the CO2, so acts as a feedback; since the oceans cover so much of the planet,
water is a large positive feedback; melting snow and ice as the atmosphere warms decreases albedo, another positive feedback, biased toward the poles, which gives larger polar warming than the global average; decreasing the temperature gradient from the equator to the poles is reducing the driving forces for the jetstream; the jetstream's meanders are increasing in amplitude and slowing, just like the lower Missippi River where its driving gradient decreases; the larger slower meanders increase the amplitude and duration of blocking highs, increasing drought and extreme temperatures — and 30,000 + Europeans and 5,000 plus Russians die, and the US corn crop, Russian wheat crop, and Aussie wildland fire protection fails — or extreme rainfall floods the US, France, Pakistan, Thailand (driving up prices for disk drives — hows that for unexpected adverse impacts from AGW?)
If
water vapor condenses on aerosol particles and then
precipitates you can remove that way too.
The warmer world would keep that extra
water vapor in the atmosphere, not
precipitate it.
Not so much by direct photolysis of
water vapor (not generally a lot of that in the stratosphere), but from CH4, which could build up in a nearly oxygen - free atmosphere, and being largerly of biotic origin, with the H coming from photosynthesis (releasing O); O2 buildup itself was delayed because of geologic O2 sinks (in particular, the conversion of ferrous Fe (naturally present in the crust and mantle and which can dissolve in the oceans) to ferric Fe (
precipitates out of the
water, the source of banded - iron formations, which humans have used to get Fe).
That air column allows mixture with air from the polar cell, but the
water picked up will be
precipitated out before the polar cell can cause it to circulate over greenland.
As you can see, air near the equator is lifted high into the troposphere, effectively drying it by
precipitating out nearly all of the
water vapour.
The dry band at the northern edge of the NH Hadley zone results means nearly all
water vapour from the tropics has been
precipitated out.
Of that which travels north, much of it will be
precipitated out, with some of that being replaced by newly evaporated
water vapour from mid-latitude oceans.
If it wasn't for the greenhouse heating by CO2, the atmosphere would become too cold to hold the current amount of
water vapor — which would condense and
precipitate, reducing the greenhouse strength to the point of snowball Earth conditions.
Because air over the tropics has been lifted, cooled, and much of the
water precipitated out.
The warm air is pushed upwards, forced to cool with
water vapour condensing and
precipitating.
On Earth,
water (which is radiatively active as a gas or a cloud) is the only condensable substance in the atmosphere, while the «long - lived» greenhouse gases (mostly CO2, CH4, O3, or N2O) do not
precipitate from the air under modern temperature or pressure regimes.
Then bacteria evolved
water splitting and converted the reducing atmosphere into an oxidizing one, which also
precipitated out all the highly colored transition metal salts from the ocean.
Another standards paper: Hong - Chun Li, Lowell D. Stott, and Douglas E. Hammond (1997) «Temperature and Salinity Effects on O ^ 18 Fractionation for Rapidly
Precipitated Carbonates: Laboratory Experiments with Alkaline Lake
Water» Episodes 20 (3), 193 - 198.
In 2010, an international team of researchers drilled almost 500 metres below the deepest part of the Dead Sea bed, to bring up evidence of a series of epic bygone droughts, when the trapped
water evaporated to
precipitate deep, dense beds of salts.
Most of the latent heat contained in
water vapour is subsequently released to the atmosphere during the formation of
precipitating clouds, although a minor amount may be returned directly to the surface during dew or frost deposition.
Typically there is considerable distance between where
water evaporates and where it ultimately
precipitates.
This is because CO2, like ozone, N2O, CH4 and CFCs, does not condense and
precipitate from the atmosphere at current climate temperatures, whereas
water vapor can, and does.
As has been pointed out by some others,
water vapor does not
precipitate out.
JimD, Don't avoid the point: photons do not care if
water vapor can condense and
precipitate out.
This is because CO2, like ozone, N2O, CH4, and chlorofluorocarbons, does not condense and
precipitate from the atmosphere at current climate temperatures, whereas
water vapor can, and does.