Sentences with phrase «thin film of water»

Driving at high speeds in heavy rain could lead to your car aquaplaning (rise up on a thin film of water between the tires and road so that there is no more contact with the road).

Red snow: When snow repeatedly melts partially and then refreezes, the stage is set for a red - pigmented alga, Chlamydomonas nivalis, to take up residence in the thin films of water around the snow particles.

That suggests thin films of water have formed at the location in the past, so studying the chemical composition can reveal much more about the martian past.

The authors conclude that liquid on present - day Mars may be limited to traces of dissolved moisture from the atmosphere and thin films of water.

Not exact matches

Reverse osmosis involves passing sea water through a thin - film membrane at a pressure of 1,000 to 1,500 per square inch.

The soil to be treated should be cleared of plant material, loosened, watered, and covered with a thin, clear, polyethylene film.

A thin stream of film composed of water and nutrients passes by the roots giving them continuous feeding.

Bubbles consist of a thin film of soapy water filled with air.

Water - based peeling of thin hydrophobic films.

«This thing [a thin film of cobalt and phosphate on an electrode] just churns away making [oxygen] from water.»

A thin film coating can chill a vat of water to 15 degress Fahrenheit cooler than its surroundings, by absorbing — and then emitting — the sun's infrared rays.

Cao's team has developed a technique that takes advantage of the MoS2's physical properties to transfer the thin film using only room - temperature water, a tissue and a pair of tweezers.

Cao's new transfer technique works by applying a drop of water to the thin film and then poking the edge of the film with tweezers or a scalpel so that the water can begin to penetrate between the MoS2 and the sapphire.

e.g. to determine the dynamics of water in porous media, polymer melts, diffusion processes in ionic liquids as well as magnetic fluctuations in single crystals, powder samples and thin films

The scientists focused on bismuth vanadate, a thin - film semiconductor that has emerged as a leading candidate for use as a photoanode, the positively charged part of a photoelectric cell that can absorb sunlight to split water.

Systems recently investigated include a partial oxidation of alcohols on supported WO3 clusters and on rutile TiO2 (110) surface, water - oxygen reactions on TiO2 (110), numerous adsorbates on epitaxial MgO (100) and nanoporous MgO films, ethylene hydrogenation on thin epitaxial and nanoporous Pd films, and most recently CO2 on TiO2 (110).

At the photoanode side, water molecules are split into oxygen gas (O2), electrons and hydrogen protons through oxidation in the presence of sunlight and the thin film coating the team recently developed.

Unfortunately, the paper - thin chain of events that could be called a plot turn our heroes away from playing around in the sky, and the film quickly goes from «Flight of the Navigator» meets «The Fast and the Furious» to a watered - down version of «Behind Enemy Lines.»

The beaches are lovely and the fine grey or white sand is abundant and expansive and glistens romantically in the evening sunset when the tide is out and large areas of beach are covered in a thin film of reflective sea water.

Researchers working with the Great Barrier Reef Foundation have developed a new technology, a super-thin film that is 50,000 times thinner than a human hair that sits on the surface of the water and acts as a sun shield.

A thin film around all of the root structures of the plants facilitates both aerobic and anaerobic processes that in turn metabolize, transform, and uptake pollutants and excess nutrients in the water.

The top layer of the roofing product (pictured) generates electricity in the same way as solar PV modules — although it uses thin film technology for less weight and thickness — while heat is trapped and distributed between the two layers for use in water and space heating.

While most current hydrogen production processes split hydrogen from natural gas — an inefficient technique that consumes energy and produces greenhouse gases — Grimes» method would rely on thin films made of titanium iron oxide nanotube arrays that could split water under natural light.

Because the rock minerals have an affinity for water, the water will coat the crevices and pore walls of the rock in a thin film, just as raindrops might spread out and form a film when they land on your skin.