Sentences with phrase «small water droplets»

Gregory and Jolanta Watson at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia, and their colleagues observed small water droplets condensing on the scales of the gecko Lucasium steindachneri in humid conditions.

Rainbows appear when light originating from the sun is refracted and reflected by small water droplets suspended in the air.

There have been articles as far back as the 70s concerning global dimming but it's only very recently, apparently, that all of the probable causes (e.g. the microscopic particles causing smaller water droplets in clouds, enhancing the mirror effect, as well as contrails) have been understood.

Aerosols create smaller water droplets, leading to less and smaller raindrops.

There have been articles as far back as the 70s concerning global dimming but it's only very recently, apparently, that all of the probable causes (e.g. the microscopic particles causing smaller water droplets in clouds, enhancing the mirror effect, as well as contrails) have been understood.

This usually happens when the molecule encounters a comparatively large mass that absorbs its kinetic, such as a small water droplet, soot particle, or spec of floating dust (I'll include «cosmic particulate «radiation» here) at this lower temperature.

Not exact matches

Even a small droplet of water will make the chocolate not stick.

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.

Intriguingly, small droplets — which appeared to be water — were spotted in photos on the legs of the Phoenix lander.

While the particles are small in size, they are large in number, and they can form many small droplets on which the excess water vapor condenses.

Atmospheric scientists believe that such particles make rain less likely, because they spread the available water among many smaller droplets that stay afloat in the cloud.

The effect is more pronounced on plants with small hairlike structures, such as ferns, that hold the water droplet in place.

But according to the report, water droplets started by salt that reaches the atmosphere grow by attracting these smaller, pollution - initiated drops.

Over land, the small size of these aerosol particles tends to suppress rainfall because the water droplets that condense on them are light enough to remain aloft.

The favoured explanation has been that the large water droplets produced by clouds collide with one another to release watery shrapnel that produces the abundant smaller droplets seen at ground level.

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.

Oil dispersant is that dish soap, lowering the tension between oil and water and allowing small droplets of oil to break away from the larger clumps.

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

«Thermal motion on the outer surface of a water droplet impacts many processes, including breaking of a single drop into many smaller droplets.»

The presence of these particles helps to seed clouds by providing sites on which water droplets can condense, but very small particles, the scientists found, actually decrease the precipitating efficiency of clouds, meaning it rains less.

Hanczyc and his colleagues from Prague have shown that small droplets of alcohol in water can move through complex mazes.

In fact, the addition of dust particles could instead create more water droplets too small to rain down or even build a respectable cloud.

Experiments and simulations showed that a water droplet on a repellent surface will freeze upward into a microscopic six - armed formation that resembles an idealized snowflake, with only a small portion of its base adhering to the surface.

However, plant leaves and biofilms both vary in this respect: when the lotus effect is present, small air bubbles are trapped between the water droplet and the surface of the leaf, whereas this does not occur in the rose petal effect.

Whereas a hydrophilic surface allows droplets to spread across it at a small contact angle, a water - repelling hydrophobic surface will force droplets to bead up and form a larger angle.

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

Researchers have long thought that smaller droplets start a chain reaction that leads to bigger, longer - lasting clouds: Instead of raining down, the lighter droplets carry their water higher, where they freeze.

Although droplets are thousands of times more numerous, previous studies have shown that adding even a small number of ice crystals to these clouds can lead to a fast dissipation of the cloud water.

Taking a closer look at the properties of water droplets and ice crystals within clouds, the team found that pollution resulted in smaller droplets and ice crystals, regardless of location.

Simultaneously, as the average liquid droplet becomes smaller through evaporation, the vapor's density increases, so more vapor molecules merge at a faster rate to become microscopic liquid droplets, and more water molecules are ionized.

Principal investigator Livia Eberlin, a chemistry professor at the University of Texas at Austin, explained that it's designed to gently extract small molecules from the surface of living tissue using nothing but a suspended droplet of water.

If you notice some droplets of water or small stream from your water pump and gasket, you might probably have a leak.

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.

It is a rainy day and tiny droplets of water are making small splashes in the river Zaan.

I took the liberty of finding the original image sans water droplets which you can view in high resolution by clicking the smaller version below.

The marine layer wanders and small particles of oceanic salt and iodine allow water droplets to condense upon them, thickening things, obscuring vision, whiting out distant sites, giving you space for yourself again.

Aerosol processes are among the most uncertain, and most studied, aspects of climate and these experiments (they bombarded a clean mixture of water, SO2, O3 and air with high energy UV and saw small H2SO4 droplets form) might be useful in adding to that field.

There are an ever increasing number of these «indirect effects», but the two most discussed are the aerosol / cloud opacity interaction (more aerosols provide more sites for water to condense in clouds, thus cloud droplets are smaller and clouds become more opaque), and the cloud lifetime effect (smaller droplets make it more difficult to make drops big enough to rain, and so clouds live longer).

Larger numbers of CCN from pollution will divide that amount of water over a larger number of necessarily smaller droplets.

I assume the water condenses into small droplets and thus the top of the cloud must be a bit warmer than the layer would be if under clear conditions?

The CO2 is acting as a filter for a small portion of the total LWIR from solid surfaces such as land or sea and ice and water droplets in clouds.

This changes the brightness of the atmosphere (many small droplets reflect more than a few larger droplets made from the same amount of water vapor).

Fog is can be not fall much in quite still air and it's small droplets of water - 1 / 1000th to 10th mm diameter range.

Though it could be when water vapor is mentioned, it not really H2O gas, That it's sloppy term for H2O gas and small droplets of H2O.

Like with any screen small droplets won't do any damage, but be wary when you're around large bodies of water.