Sentences with phrase «tiny pore spaces»
In these rock units the challenge is not «finding» the reservoir; the challenge is recovering the gas from very tiny pore spaces in a low - permeability rock unit.
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«The pore spaces, or tiny holes, in the rock remain filled with these ancient oceans, so when we drill wells today that water is produced to the surface,» Tinker says.
When they added a few small drops of sunflower oil to the powder samples, they observed the liquid fat moving through pores and tiny spaces in the chocolate very quickly, most likely as a result of capillary action — the movement of a liquid within porous material due to the forces of adhesion, cohesion, and surface tension.
Why the pores form is unclear, but a likely explanation, he says, is that the material contracts as it rearranges itself into small crystals, leaving tiny spaces in - between.