Sentences with phrase «seawater comes»

Not exact matches

While lithium isn't particularly rare, it's still harder to come by than sodium, which can be extracted from seawater.

«The common thread is that the technologies to do this without having to collect big buckets of seawater are starting to come on stream,» Hill said.

Because similar plastic beads straight from the manufacturer don't emit DMS, it's likely that the scent comes from algae growing on the surface of the beads and from DMS that they adsorb via exposure to seawater.

When the superheated fluids come in contact with near - freezing seawater, these minerals precipitate, forming dark, smoke - like plumes of particles.

«They hardly ever come onto land, and they don't swim in seawater either,» he says, which helps explain how a distinct species arose, in the case of the Suwannee alligator snapping turtle, in just one river.

Several years ago, Jon Zehr and his colleagues at the University of California, Santa Cruz, discovered fixation genes in seawater that looked like they came from single - celled bacteria.

During their investigations, the research team came to the surprising result that has been published in the journal Geology: 2.7 billion years ago, seawater contained an unusually high abundance of the radioactive isotope Hafnium 176 but a comparably low abundance of the radioactive isotope Neodymium 143, similar to what can be observed in present day seawater.

Some life rafts come equipped with devices to convert seawater to freshwater, but the amount of drinkable water they make is limited.

Skeletons and shells first came into being 550 million years ago as the chemical make - up of seawater changed, a study suggests.

The fluids react with relatively acidic seawater to produce mineral structures full of tiny pores, where hydrogen and carbon dioxide come together to form simple molecules.

Clinoptilolite is formed when volcanic molten lava comes in contact with seawater.

Sea salt: Natural sea salt comes from evaporated seawater and is harvested all over the world.

Fleur de sel is white because the salt crystals don't come in contact with the clay beds in which seawater concentrates.

The study also revealed that the ice melting that was caused by the storm was the result of heat coming from the stirring of seawater layers below the ice.

Schneider's approach to climate policy, comes up during a discussion of the enduring uncertainty surrounding the most consequential aspects of global warming, particularly the near - term rate at which sea levels will rise as ice sheets melt and seawater warms.

If the population is low enough, available energy great enough, and technology sophisticated enough, you could in theory go on recycling your stocks of metals and plastics forever, making up efficiency losses by «mining» seawater, until the sun goes nova or humanity just gets too damn tired to bother any more, whichever comes first.

Hey, I'm sure some bright person will eventually come up with a clever way of producing liquid fuels out of gravel or seawater or chicken gizzards or something.

The seawater albedo values at Arctic latitudes came from the study I cited, and the sea ice albedo values came from Wiki.

Well the bottom of the Oceans is at 4 degrees so the water there came from polar sources, melted ice / seawater or chilled winter, high salt brines.

As reported by Don Perovich aboard the Healy, there is widespread refreezing of surface ice meltwater as it runs through, then underneath, the ice and comes into contact with colder, more saline seawater, adding on layers of newly formed ice to the bottom of floes during the melt season.

Field observations and a drifting buoy tracking through the region also reveal that widespread refreezing of surface ice meltwater as it comes into contact with colder, more saline seawater, has added ice layers to the bottom of floes, slowing down thinning and melt of the ice cover.

But as the co-creator of a building that came on the market just as Hurricane Irma brought to the world apocalyptic scenes of Floridians caravaning out of the state and reporters waist - deep in seawater, Karp is perhaps the most vocal of these stakeholders.