Sentences with phrase «pressures under the earth»

Vapor blankets could not develop at the high supercritical pressures under the earth's surface, because SCW is always a mixture of microscopic liquid droplets floating in a very dense vapor.

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And some early reports indicated that the reentry vehicle — the component that returns the payload to the Earth's surface — broke up under the pressure during reentry.

We must assume that under the rapidly mounting pressures forcing them upon one another the human molecules will ultimately succeed in finding their way through the critical barrier of mutual repulsion to enter the inner zone of attraction (This is an old idea which I advanced nearly twenty years ago in an unpublished essay entitled, The Spirit of Earth.)

With fracking, millions of gallons of water, dangerous chemicals, and sand are injected under high pressure deep into the earth, fracturing hard rock to release oil and gas.

New calculations of the composition of TRAPPIST - 1f, the fifth planet from the star, suggest a relatively thin layer of water (still far deeper than anything found on Earth) gives way to ice VI and ice VII, two different forms of ice that can form under high pressures.

The Deep Earth Water model is showing that, under extreme pressures down to 200 kilometers, water can dissolve many ions and host unexpected new reactions.

The group studied how olivine, the most abundant mineral in the earth's upper mantle, transforms under pressure to become a more dense form called spinel.

Also in the mid-1990s, another group of scientists proposed the now widely accepted mechanism for how lakes can form under glaciers: Heat radiating from Earth's interior is trapped under the thick, insulating ice sheet, and pressure from the weight of all the ice above it lowers the melting point of the ice at the bottom.

Then again, with the surface of Venus being at almost 900 °F (500 °C) under more than 90 times the air pressure of Earth's atmosphere at sea level, with occasional showers of acid, it's not easy to test the properties of materials under Venusian conditions.

Squeezed by 1.5 times Earth's atmospheric pressure yet buoyant under one - seventh Earth's gravity, humans on its surface would feel more like divers under an ocean than astronauts on exposed airless rocks in space.

Silica's various high - pressure forms make it an often - used study subject for scientists interested in the transition between different chemical phases under extreme conditions, such as those mimicking the deep Earth.

The melting temperature was 4726 °C when under pressures equivalent to 2 million times that of Earth's atmosphere (Nature Physics, doi.org/gcv8xr).

«Interactions between oxygen and iron dictate Earth's formation, differentiation — or the separation of the core and mantle — and the evolution of our atmosphere, so naturally we were curious to probe how such reactions would change under the high - pressure conditions of the deep Earth,» said Mao.

It turns out that water contained in some minerals that get pulled down into Earth due to plate tectonic activity could, under extreme pressures and temperatures, split up — liberating hydrogen and enabling the residual oxygen to combine with iron metal from the core to create a novel high - pressure mineral, iron peroxide.

To test this idea, the team used sophisticated tools at Argonne National Laboratory to examine the propagation of seismic waves through samples of iron peroxide that were created under deep - Earth - mimicking pressure and temperature conditions employing a laser - heated diamond anvil cell.

But these cores formed under the weight of their planets» outer layers, under pressures of around 500 gigapascals — 5 million times atmospheric pressure on Earth — and typical temperatures of about 6,000 kelvin.

«Rust under pressure could explain deep Earth anomalies.»

A Florida State University geology researcher is going deep below the Earth's surface to understand how some of the most abundant minerals that comprise the Earth's crust change under pressure.

Alexander F. Goncharov's analyzes materials under extreme conditions such as high pressure and temperature using optical spectroscopy and other techniques to understand how matter fundamentally changes, the chemical processes occurring deep within planets, including Earth, and to understand and...

It turns out that water contained in some minerals that get pulled down into the Earth due to plate tectonic activity could, under extreme pressures and temperatures, split up — liberating hydrogen and enabling the residual oxygen to combine with iron metal from the core to create a novel high - pressure mineral, iron peroxide.

The pressure at the center of a comet nucleus 3 miles in diameter is about what you would feel under a blanket here on Earth.

THE BIG PICTURE: LAND UNDER PRESSURE The current pressures on land are huge and expected to continue growing: there is rapidly escalating competition between the demand for land functions that provide food, water, and energy, and those services that support and regulate all life cycles on Earth.

We were able to show that under [presumed] Enceladus - like conditions and the given environmental parameters, biological methane production did occur in the lab,» and that a «microoorganism from a hydrothermal vent system on Earth could be grown in the presence of [presumed] inhibitors in combination with high pressure.»

«I live in one of the hottest places on earth (the Middle East), I work as a paramedic under high pressure in a constantly varied environment, and I do Crossfit.

Planet Under Pressure, a four - day conference exploring how science can identify and limit risks in the face of increasing human impacts on the Earth, has ended * with a call for «urgent action» against the the unrelenting buildup of greenhouse gases.

With automotive emissions regulations again coming under political pressure, we thought we'd re run this Earth Day question from 2014 in an attempt to answer the question: Why all the fuss?

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Earth's mantle contains liquid CO2 under high pressure and emits CO2 to air in volcanic eruptions and in some volcanic xenoliths that spontaneously fracture at Earth's surface.

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.

Except for the liquid outer core, most of the Earth takes the form of a rheid, a form of solid that can move or deform under pressure.

bearing in mind that only a small percentage of earths population have access to electricity, if we enabled all under developed countries in the world with fossil fuel electricity and heating systems, we would likely have to cover every sq inch of farmland in trees to combat climate change.rather than outright fighting the building of wind turbines (that in future times can be repaired at a fraction of the impact and pollution of replacing them) we should be putting pressure on the manufacturers of these systems and technologies to invest more in finding green solutions to using the polluting chemicals in the construction of turbines.

This in turn also leads to lateral growth of the Walker Cell — and therefore pole - ward migration (on both hemispheres) of the subtropical subsidence zone, where air under downward force is compressed at the Earth surface and semi-perminent high pressure systems lead to strucutural drought and desertification.

1) Start by computing the total GHG - free air constant mass per unit area of a gas layer between any two heights under gravity g 2) Add in the hydrostatic equilibrium pressure change with height in the gravity field 3) Compute the total enthalpy per unit area of the layer realizing the layer possesses potential energy per unit area in earth's gravity field 4) From that, realize energy conservation imposes a constraint that total dry static energy is constant in the layer (within adiabatic control volume) 5) From this, realize and compute the total entropy (S) of the layer over the height of the layer 6) Transform S computation from height to pressure by way of hydrostatic eqn.

If CO2e exceeds a range of 550 to 650 parts per million — which could easily happen even under so - called moderate rates of fossil fuel burning before the middle of the 21st Century — then all the land ice on Earth will be placed under melt pressure.

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Gas wells are punched deep into the earth; layers of rock are then «cracked» by injecting sand - and chemical - filled water under great pressure - the so - called «fracing» process - allowing natural gas to escape to the surface via well head, and so it is feared, allowing contaminants from fracing fluids to move into nearby water wells.

Christine McCarthy, a geophysicist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory, scrunches blocks of ice between hunks of rock to study how ice behaves under pressure.

Hydraulic fracturing is accomplished by pumping a mixture of water, sand and chemical additives, into dense rock formations deep below the earth's surface under pressure.

She remains calm under pressure and is a down to earth, friendly and reassuring presence for clients.