Sentences with phrase «small oil droplets»

The team found that frequencies near 200 kilohertz were best for tracking small oil droplets like those in the Deepwater Horizon spill.

Not exact matches

Dispersants have been applied to oil slicks on the ocean surface for half a century to break petroleum into smaller droplets that dissipate into waters of the open ocean so that less oil reaches ecologically sensitive coastlines.

With the assistance of co-authors Piero Gardinali of Florida International University and Ron Atlas of the University of Louisville, a suspension of small, insoluble oil droplets was evenly distributed in bottles, along with the more soluble oil fractions and chemical dispersant to mimic the conditions of the oil plume.

Smaller, dispersed droplets are less threatening for two reasons: they present more surface area to the water, so ocean bacteria can degrade the oil faster; plus, the small droplets are much slower to rise to the surface, keeping the oil at sea instead of in coastal wetlands and giving the bacteria more time to do their magic.

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The researchers are still trying to figure out exactly how this speed is so quickly achieved and why the oil quickly breaks into small droplets, information that could help them design an emergency asthma inhaler filled with exploding pockets of medicine, they note.

The new method involves isolating small sections of thousands of genes in tiny droplets of water suspended in an oil.

The efficiency of microbial degradation is decreased when oil is not dispersed in small droplets.

FUS proteins can change back and forth from small liquid droplets (resembling oil droplets in water) to small gels (like jelly) inside nerve cells.

Obviously, if you're working with a fat such as coconut oil, this can be very bad because the coconut oil will form small, solid «droplets.»

We use a small amount of emulsifier in FleaHex ® Household Spray to stabilize the oil and water droplets in the suspension.

We use a small amount of emulsifier in FleaHex ® Household Spray to stabilize the oil and water droplets in suspension.