Sentences with phrase «sucked up to the surface»

For deeper deposits, volumes of superhot pressurized steam are pumped underground to melt out the bitumen so it can be sucked up to the surface by production wells running in parallel.

Not exact matches

Alternatively, use a steam cleaner to suck up and sanitize floors, especially hard woods, tile or other non-carpeted surfaces.

Chan says that lighter warm water creates a cap over the colder depths, making it less likely that deeper waters — where everything from «plankton to whale poop» sucks up oxygen — will rise to mix with the oxygenated surface.

Its tall, gangly, inefficient architecture makes it an environmental laggard among plants, one that sucks up water and fertilizer while leaching out gobs of nutrients that run off in rainfall, polluting surface waters from the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico.

Toxic ocean pollutants like DDT, PCBs, or mercury cling to the surface of plastics, causing them to «suck up all the pollutants in the water and concentrate them.»

Haney had rigged up three vacuum - like devices with pipes, plastic funnels and paper to suck up and filter air near the lake's surface.

They spin - up, but still seem to dig into the surface, and with a good armful of correction the R500 screams through first, second and is into third before you've remembered to suck in some cold air yourself.

She can just make the crab out, shadowed and distorted, trundling sideways across the rock, and she pursues it, kicking her feet to stay pressed down against the bottom, and then she lays her hands on the cold crisp shell, somersaults in the water, and surges upward into her own plume of hair, up along a passage of black rock, pitted and winding, gaping windows alterately fountaining water or sucking it back, the weeds moving rhythmically in and out with this labored breathing, some trick of the light making the pool's surface into a shifting mirror, and though she should look up and see her grandpa bent over the pool, she can not.

, there are DOWN CURRANTS we hit one @ Mikes point & only 3 of 10 made it to the surface,,,, the dive was called off due to 3 - 7 knot currants,, I was 1 of the 3 after hitting the wall @ mikes I tried to make it to the surface only to find myself @ the bottom after inflated my bc about half way I tried to make it up again came with in 20 feet of it then got sucked down again 3rd I made it,,,, But during that time bobbles ever were going down, sideways every were but up!

The 1 button handles most of your other skills, be it gathering your water to keep it cohesive (and build up some explosive pressure), sticking your ice to a surface to defy gravity for a limited time, or sucking in air (useful for carrying balloons); your other skills will require use of the D - pad or 2 button, but the controls are never complicated.

Thanks to a lack of atmosphere, opening most crates out on the moon's surface instantly sucks in anything you need, speeding up the ammo collection process.

In the same way, if multimerization causes air to be sucked up to the tropopause from the surface, it might be sucked up in a whirlpool manner.

This rebound can not only trigger earthquakes and landslides, it can also suck up the magma in the Earth's crust to the surface and trigger volcanic eruptions.

Global surface temperatures were the 8th or 9th highest recorded, partly because the first two months were cool - ish thanks to a La Nina in the Pacific, where cooler waters sit on the top of the ocean and suck up heat from the atmosphere.

The primary effect of the two tropical Hadley cells (one for each hemisphere) is for the rising hot air at the equator to suck surface air from the higher latitudes (north and south) along the surface towards the equator, pump it vertically at the equator, and at a suitable height push it polewards, one pole per cell, up where the jet planes fly.

If the earth core is somewhere in the 5,000 to 10,000 deg C range; and the surface / lower troposphere is 15 deg C; and you say that the deep oceans are at 4 deg C; and are sucking in «heat» from the warm surface waters; where the hell is all that heat piling up down there.

The increase of the temperature of the surface skin layer would indicate in such a case only that the evaporation «sucks» energy from the adjacent layer below (or, in other words, pumps it up to the region of higher temperature characterizing the surface skin layer) and transports this energy to air in the form of both the latent heat and the other transport channels.

Hence the reason to switch to a stronger more compelling proof of Global Warming would suck away the last breaths of doubts spun by mischievous contrarians knowing full well that surface temperature trends are long term, but count on the ignorance of the lay, and jump up and down very excited by any short term surface temperature drop.

It sucks... but I get to sprinkle cut glass and mica flakes onto the surfaces so that makes up for it...