Sentences with phrase «right at the surface»

Usually it happens close to the surface, or right at the surface.

«There is a certain type of doping element that minimizes hydrogen's ability to penetrate, whereas other doping elements can introduce a maximum amount of electrons in the oxide, and facilitate the ejection of hydrogen gas right at the surface of the oxide,» says Mostafa.

Everything is happening right at the surface.»

Is there, for example, a greater concentration of carbonate or perchlorate (a mineral that was found at the site earlier in the mission) a few inches below the surface than right at the surface?

Though the species spends a lot of its time feeding and spawning on an algae - covered rock shelf right at the surface, divers must descend more than 100 feet in two - person teams to count the farthest - flung fish using a standardized search pattern that has been in use since the 1970s.

She swam from one side of the boat to the next repeatedly, floating right at the surface, and often looking up to make eye contact with us.

There are juvenile bat fish and beautiful soft corals that grow right at the surface on the roots of the mangroves.

This intense heating allows us to generate steam locally, right at the surface of the particle, and the idea of generating steam locally is really counterintuitive.»

But notice that the reflective coating tends to work «right at the surface» by reflecting energy from the mass behind the coating back into the mass.

Also, as far as temperature changes across the year are concerned, in the polar regions right at the surface, the main warming will be in the winter months.

The latter is directly determined by temperature right at the surface, not 1.5 m above.

Not exact matches

«They didn't test the product enough and in the right variety of circumstances, especially considering that a wood surface is a very likely support for the product,» said Ignazio Moresco, a product design expert who has worked at frog design, Microsoft and Ericsson.

For oil and gas companies that want to install drilling and pumping infrastructure there, continuous monitoring of conditions above, below and at the surface of the water will be integral, and right now drones are the only feasibly deployable technology that can collect and relay all that data in a cost - effective manner.

The new world order is basically a social change that is happening right now because of: the advent of networking and networking communications, the degree of inequality that is starting to surface across the developed worlds, the richer getting richer and the poorer getting poorer, and a number of other factors that we'll get into, but it's changing the forms governance, it is going to change the forms of institutions that haven't changed since the Breton Woods at the end of the Second World War which were predominantly US - based institutions if you would: IMF, World Bank in Washington, the United Nations in New York.

In Russia and in other totalitarian states, both left and right, the most fearless advocates of human rights are usually nurtured in minority religious communities which on the surface have no power at all.

Enveloped in the blue mist of oxygen which its life breathes, it floats at exactly the right distance from the sun to enable the higher chemisms to take place on its surface.

Just when a «gender gap» at the voting booth surfaced in 1980, and women in politics began to talk of capitalizing on it, the Republican party elevated Ronald Reagan and both political parties began to shunt women's rights off their platforms.»

At 21, I was being paid to travel the world, dating the «perfect guy» (long - distance, of course), played the piano at church, and on all the surface levels was right on tracAt 21, I was being paid to travel the world, dating the «perfect guy» (long - distance, of course), played the piano at church, and on all the surface levels was right on tracat church, and on all the surface levels was right on track.

1) Sift the flour into a mixing bowl 2) Add the salt to the flour, mixing together 3) Add the olive oil, mixing as you add to ensure the flour envelopes the oil 4) Add warm water bit by bit until dough reaches the right consistency 5) One the dough ready, roll it into a ball, and knead well on a cool, flat surface 6) Flatten the dough with a wooden rolling pin 7) Cut into 10 cm pieces and roll them long enough and evenly 8) Place the pin - shaped dough on a well - greased baking tray 9) Bake in oven at 175 deg cel (medium heat for gas ovens) for 20 -30 minutes or until the sticks are ready (test by breaking off a small piece to check that the inside is well cooked) 10) Allow to cool for 5 minutes before serving

The first time we went to the pool, after we put the blow - up water wings on her arms, she took one look at the surface of the water, and dove right in.

That has become the popular question in the wake of Kevin Harvick's dominating win Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, when following the triumph photos surfaced online that appeared to show the rear window on Harvick's No. 4 Stewart - Haas Racing car had bowed in the upper right corner.

With twenty seconds left, he zings in a series of eight jabs and a razor of a right, all designed to make only surface contact, but to confirm that, at least in this moment, he remains Ali.

«On the surface, Unforgiven «99 feels like a forgettable show, but it's really at the height of the Vince Russo era in WWE and it's right before Russo dips out in the middle of the night and goes to WCW,» said Thompson.

Two Premier League managers are coming under severe pressure right now and, no matter what their recent results, I am always amazed when the criticism of Arsenal boss Arsène Wenger rises to the surface as it has done following their 3 - 1 defeat at Chelsea.

Baby changing stations in public restrooms are a good example of how much easier it is to change a baby when the surface is designed for the purpose and is at the right height.

That's why, even though it is possible to change a baby almost anywhere - including the front seat of the car and the floor, having a suitable surface at the right height is a real bonus.

Against Nixon, McGovern was probably doomed anyway, but The Eagleton Affair completely destroyed any serious hope, at least according to the the Good Doktor Thompson: when it surfaced that the Missouri senator had been through electro - convulsive therapy for depression, McGovern first stood bravely by him in public (quite literally and in fantastic 1972 polyester, if I remember right).

Proposals to ban horse carriages and other animal rights issues surfaced at a forum for Democratic candidates during the New York City mayoral election campaign.

Since this is surfacing alongside government proposals for comprehensive surveillance of the whole nation's internet use, the killing off of the Green Deal, the Tory Right's determination to get a referendum on the EU at any cost, plus Lansley's determination to destroy the country's most precious institution with regional pay mark - downs now added on, the Lords row couldn't be better timed.

In essence, the first pulse excites the chemical system from its original potential energy surface onto another surface, thus bypassing a bottleneck in the original pathway because the reaction leaps onto another pathway at just the right time.

How It Works In traditional display manufacturing, features are etched into the surface of a multilayer semiconductor stack (green, blue, and red layers in the diagram at right) that sits atop a substrate (yellow); here we show just one small part of a large array of components.

John Verhoeven at Iowa State University has shown that only specific types of crucible steel, bearing trace elements such as vanadium, would yield the right surface pattern.

For example, a light ray striking the surface of the water at a 45 degree angle from the right bends farther downward into the water and continues to travel down and to the left.

THINKING OUTSIDE THE GOLDILOCKS ZONE The hunt for extraterrestrial life has long focused on planets at a just - right distance from alien stars, where liquid water can exist on a planet's surface.

Those at the left were closest to the surface; those at the right were from deeper in the seafloor.

These two figures show the internal waves at Dongsha Island on April 23, 2010, as seen by the radar on TerraSAR - X in its conventional mode of operation (left) and in the experimental new mode that permits direct velocity measurements (right), with the measured surface velocities shown in color.

They might also come up with a way to select the right cells out of a mixed population; Anand Swaroop, an ophthalmology researcher at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, is working on a way to identify and weed out the photoreceptor cells by focusing on proteins present on cell surfaces.

With the right arrangement of crosses, two different pictures can be stored on the same surface at the same time, each visible under a different type of polarised light.

«We've got a spacecraft on the way to Ceres, so we don't have to wait long before getting more context on this intriguing result, right from the source itself,» said Carol Raymond, the deputy principal investigator for Dawn at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Dawn will map the geology and chemistry of the surface in high resolution, revealing the processes that drive the outgassing activity.»

«The separation between the planet and its star is just right for having liquid water at its surface,» says astronomer and team spokesperson Stephane Udry of the Observatory of Geneva in Versoix, Switzerland.

«It is now clear that we first need to understand the dynamics of the deepest «Underworld», right above the core, to unravel the history of volcanism at Earth's surface,» said Professor Müller.

The short answer to the driving - up - the - wall problem is, of course, that a car of the right mass moving at sufficient speed on a curved vertical surface could stay up there.

Thus, he concludes, a large fraction of extrasolar planets «will be the right size to keep on their surface water and possibly an atmosphere of some sort» and some will be «at the proper distance from their parent sun to maintain a suitable temperature».

The large, dark region at far right is Syrtis Major Planitia, one of the first features identified on the surface of the planet by seventeenth century observers.

For example, white arrows on the left indicate a layer ~ 5 km above the surface, which has descended to the surface at the right.

When we looked at the size of the roof, we said right now, as far as the planet is concerned, that would be a liability if it were an impervious surface.

«The results show that there is a massive potential for reducing both traffic noise and fuel consumption linked to conventional cars by combining low - noise tires and the right kind of road surfacing,» says Truls Berge, an acoustics researcher at SINTEF.

At the right moment, Philae will be ejected backwards, allowing it to gently fall to the comet's surface, which could take as long as 12 hours.

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Robert Goodall, University of Leicester PhD student and lead author of the paper, added: «If you want good results — with all the ridges and bumps on a surface reproduced at the same scale as the original — you need to use the right rubber for the job.»