Sentences with phrase «semiglassy water surface»

DREDGING SOLUTION The SlurrySucker operates from the top of the water surface and sucks silt from the bottom of the processing pond

To get moisture to the seeds you need to water the surface of the soil.

«You can look out at the ponds now, you see very little growth of this species up to the water surface.»

At tests at a giant seawater tank in New Jersey called Ohmsett, the National Oil Spill Response Research & Renewable Energy Test Facility, the Oleo Sponge successfully collected diesel and crude oil from both below and on the water surface.

It's a small cylinder with a weighted rubber membrane stretched across a metal frame that floats atop the water surface.

The types of plastics are used in the plastic industry e.g. for packaging, office equipment and vehicle construction and float on the water surface for long distances.

The satellites provide information about water surface temperatures, which are key to the spread of this waterborne disease.

Water loss increases as temperatures rise because plants use more water, and higher temperatures increase evaporative loss from the soil and from the water surface and lengthen the growing season.

The electrode is so soft that it deflects against a water surface.

Many fish, along with plankton and shrimp, live and feed within loose mats of Sargassum that float near the water surface.

In other studies where green sea turtles and tiger shark home range overlap have been analyzed, scientists have observed turtles that avoid isolating themselves at the water surface when they are vulnerable to ambush from tiger sharks.

«In standby, all the lights were yellow and the water fleas were swimming close to the water surface.»

Scattered throughout Mexico and central America are pools where water surfaces from underground networks of caves, which the ancient Maya said were gateways to the underworld.

The egg should have floated (with part of it above the water surface) in these two cups because the solutions were denser than the egg.

Waves originate when air and water surface temperatures are not the same.

In fact, says Horváth, the oil surface is more polarized than the water surface, and therefore oil is more attractive to insects.

Quantitative analysis has evidenced the acceleration system of melting ice: dark water surfaces absorb more heat than white ice surfaces, thus melting ice and making more water surfaces in the Arctic Ocean.

Analyzing the data from 1979 to 2014, the researchers found the solar heat input through open water surfaces correlated well with ice melt volume, suggesting heat input is a major causative factor of melting ice.

According to a painstaking satellite survey of 1.3 million lakes stretching from coast to coast, the country lost 6700 square kilometres — or 1.2 per cent — of its water surface area between 2000 and 2009.

Dr Paolo Cipollini from NOC explained: «When a satellite altimeter overpasses the area affected by a surge, it gives us a unique profile of the water surface level from offshore to the coast, as well as concurrent measurements of wave height.

As a result it can see both above and below the water, and monitor reflections on the underside of the water surface.

It is developed for investigation on 2D motion control and motion planning in a small place, and it can only swim at water surface.

By deploying the fan, the insects can increase their leg's contact with the water surface and can push against the water more forcefully.

Ready to strike, the spear fisherman holds his spear above the water surface.

This year, the event will benefit from an unseasonably warm winter, with satellite data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrationplacing the average water surface temperature around Coney Island in December at about 48 degrees Fahrenheit (8.9 degrees Celsius).

In theory, the CO2 dissolves through diffusion, which takes place when the gas comes into contact with the water surface.

«When the water surface is wavy, sun - rays refract according to the waves and project onto the solar image plane,» explains Schechner.

To move and turn, they use «a sculling motion, [where] during the front stroke the leg is in the air, and during the reverse stroke the leg is pushing water [but] never breaking the water surface,» says principal investigator Metin Sitti.

When all of the components work together, the Stella Maris system acts as both a wave sensor to estimate the water surface, and a viewing system to see the above surface image of interest through a computerized, «reconstructed» surface.

The Stella Maris virtual periscope is just the latest technology developed by the researchers, who have also found ways to exploit «underwater flicker,» i.e., random change of underwater lighting, caused by the water surface wave motion.

Scientists have now developed a new material that can be placed on the water surface that significantly reduces that energy loss, allowing sound to be transmitted about 160 times more efficiently, the team will report later this month in Physical Review Letters.

Researchers from the University of Birmingham, UK, and University of Tübingen, Germany, looked for the spontaneous re-occurrence of a tool - use behaviour practiced in wild chimpanzees where sticks are used to «scoop» algae from the top of water surfaces.

The evidence of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) spontaneously using sticks to scoop food from water surfaces is published in the open - access journal PeerJ.

They used hollow glass spheres, which naturally float at the water surface, so a camera could capture the process.

Languorous bubbles flopped and floated to the water surface.

As the planet warms from climate change, there is more evaporation from both land and water surfaces.

The team is looking into the water surface to see if iodate is absorbed or the water shell that forms rejects the ion at the surface.

If the recent intensification of the cool spot were caused by a recent AMOC slowdown you would expect to see warming of intermediate waters under a cool fresh water surface layer.

As algae on the water surface also eventually die, bacteria will break them down.

At the water surface, the H 2 S oxidizes to microgranules of sulfur, discoloring it a milky green.

The penetration of LWIR into water is immaterial, as by warming the surface, one also warms whatever water the surface layer then mixes with.

Specifically, the center of mass of the robotic fish was placed in the middle of the water column, that is, seven cm from both the water surface and the bottom of the water tunnel, and it was positioned 50 cm from both left and right honeycombs.

«Like waves on a water surface when a stone is dropped», explains Peining Li, EU Marie Sklodowska - Curie fellow at nanoGUNE and first author of the paper.

2) In a confined volume, an increase in evaporation will result in an increased vapour pressure of H2O in the atmosphere above the water surface.

These are predatory heteropteran insects, characterised by their ability to live on the water surface, and include water striders, pond skaters, and other relatives.

The opening, in particular, set against looking - glass water surfaces, is breathtaking.

Godzilla's scaly back breaking the water surface, Aaron Taylor - Johnson on a bridge, hiding from something in the darkness.

Also, water surface run - off can be reduced.

In Riptide GP, a jetski racing game, the G2x was able to smoothly and realistically render effects, such as reflections on water surfaces and splashes.

«Behind the water surface?»