Sentences with phrase «supercools into»

Not exact matches

Wergin and Erbe have used their low - temperature scanning electron microscope to infer what happens when falling ice crystals run into fogs of supercooled water droplets on their way down, a common occurrence.

So I thought it'd be supercool to introduce a little telepresence into our relationship.

«How supercooled water is prevented from turning into ice.»

«By integrating a light - activated molecule into the traditional picture of latent heat, we add a new kind of control knob for properties such as melting, solidification, and supercooling,» says Grossman, who is the Morton and Claire Goulder and Family Professor in Environmental Systems as well as professor of materials science and engineering.

The theory is that electrified, umbrella - shaped towers can send negatively charged particles into the air, increasing the chance that supercooled droplets will collide with freezing nuclei, thus becoming rain.

Once those silver iodide particles make their way into a ripe cloud, they collide with drops of supercooled water and form ice; the ice then falls to the ground, melting along the way.

Under such supercooled conditions, a large fraction of the atoms collapse into the lowest quantum state, at which point quantum effects become apparent on a macroscopic scale.

Kerner suggests that heavy traffic behaves like supercooled steam, in which it only takes a molecular «seed» to trigger millions of molecules to condense into water.

«Supercooled water transforms into new form of liquid.»

In 2010, a group led by Andrew Cleland at the University of California, Santa Barbara, made a 0.06 - millimetre - long supercooled metal strip simultaneously vibrate and not vibrate, putting it into a quantum superposition of states.

I'm not into cloud physics in any way, which is why I ask the question, but I'm was once well acquainted with supercooling and the need for heterogeneous nucleation in most things material.

Freezing nuclei are absorbed into the liquid water and convert the supercooled water to ice from the inside out.

On the other hand, if some of the anthropogenic aerosols act as ice nuclei, supercooled clouds could be converted into ice clouds by the glaciation indirect effect (Lohmann, 2002), resulting in more efficient precipitation formation.