Sentences with phrase «relatively warm material»

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Another surprising clue came from comets that apparently derived some of their material from relatively warm parts of the young solar system.

By harnessing the properties of thermal inertia — the ability of materials to store heat and give it off slowly — an «Enertia» house maintains a relatively fixed and comfortable temperature throughout the warmer day (when solar heat is collected and stored) and cooler night (when the wood walls give off heat to keep things toasty as the mercury dips).

The relatively warm climate at Çatalhöyük and contamination issues from the previous generation of digs have made it difficult to analyze genetic material, so Pilloud uses teeth as a proxy for DNA.

The built environment, whether concrete structures or paved roads, absorbs heat, increasing the impact of global warming — but alternative materials could be a relatively cheap way to reduce temperature rise.

Through a process known as convection, cooler nitrogen ice located in the middle of the cells falls away, and is replaced by a rising globule of (relatively) warm material, which has been heated by Pluto's feeble interior heat source.

With its powerful suite of complementary science instruments, the mission soon revealed a towering plume of water ice and vapor, salts and organic materials that issues from relatively warm fractures on the wrinkled surface.