Sentences with phrase «survive at high temperatures»

Some of the already known low - and intermediate - mass extrasolar planets may be carbon planets, which should easily survive at high temperatures near a star if they have the mass of Neptune.

Not exact matches

A Swansea University nanomaterials expert has been looking at how small gold particles survive when subjected to very high temperatures.

Given that some microbes can withstand temperatures as high as 122 °C and pressures about 3000 times higher than at Earth's surface, Plümper calculates that life could survive up to 10 kilometres beneath the seabed.

In 1992 Vassilenka Petrova - Koch and colleagues at the University of Munich demonstrated that luminescent porous silicon can survive oxidation at temperatures as high as 950 to 1050 °C.

Achieving low - temperature activity, while surviving the harsh conditions encountered at high engine loads, remains a formidable challenge.

She is a planetary scientist at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass. «Everybody knows about the high pressures and temperatures on Venus, so people think we don't have technology to survive that.

Today, most of the remaining native forest birds are endangered, and they survive only at elevations where colder - temperatures limit the spread of mosquitoes (4,500 feet or higher).

Deuterium (or heavy hydrogen) is a fragile isotope that can not survive the high temperatures achieved at the centers of stars.

Pyrolobus fumarii is a species of archaea known for its ability to survive at extremely high temperatures that kill most organisms.