Sentences with phrase «to sink in water»

With their deliberate, almost - impaired pace, they fall like feathers sinking in water.

The boots are used to make Link sink in water, or resist high winds.

Playa de Garcey — This spot is the former resting place of the American Star which sunk in water right in front of the beach.

I suggested he look into the Enbridge oil spill on the Kalamazoo River oil spill for an example of how this type of dilbit oil sinks in water when the diluents have evaporated, thus rendering boom ineffective.

When dilbit sinks in water it is much more difficult to clean up than conventional crude, which usually floats.

The array of claims around Alberta's crude is wide and varied: on the one hand, anti-Keystone groups contend that dilbit — i.e. diluted bitumen, thick oilsand crude mixed with light hydrocarbons that will allow it to flow through a pipeline — is more corrosive than other types of oil and sinks in water rather than floating, which makes it harder to clean rivers and lakes after a spill.

Usually, in the natural order, iron sinks in water, but the supernatural, if it wishes, can intervene so that an axhead floats at the behest of a prophet.

If the batter sinks in water then beat again, until batter is light enough to float.)

«An example of this is foraging; we will toss small food bits among ice and toys so he learns to search for it, or we'll place toys that sink in the water so he can practice diving to retrieve them.»

Even kids love to know what sinks in water and what floats.

«The hatcheries call it «lazy larvae syndrome» because these tiny oysters just sink in the water and stop swimming,» Waldbusser says.

But excuse me for not caring all that much, especially when the cost of finding out is the repeated, striking overhead image of Longo's dead daughter stuffed in a suitcase as her favorite stuffed animal falls down in slow motion on top of her just before she's zipped up and soon thereafter tossed into a coastal inlet, followed by the image of the suitcase slowly sinking in the water.

Is it ethical that smugglers exploit millions of migrants and to force them to pay for being put in an overloaded boat that most likely will sink in the waters of the sea?

One of the most famous dive sites is the Antilla, a German freighter which sunk in the waters at the start of WWII.

They simply can not sink in water.»

When a golfer hits a ball off the fairway, lands it in a sand trap, or sinks it in a water hazard, calling a mulligan allows the player to replay a bad stroke as if it hadn't occurred.

And with the way tar sands oil sinks in water, a tanker or pipeline spill in the area would be devastating for the region.

The Environmental Protection Agency says the Michigan incident showed that, unlike other types of crude, bitumen can sink in water — the Kalamazoo will have to be dredged to contain damage — and might emit dangerous levels of benzene, a carcinogenic substance, when it breaks out.

This activity uses a bit of science trickery to make an object that sinks in water, float in water.

While this tactic doesn't help my tendency to sink in water, it works consistently for delivering some surprises on land.

If your stool is dark, sinks in the water, and if you have to strain to eliminate, you are a candidate for constipation, and then for bloody stool.

In science, for example, groups had to experiment with rocks, feathers, and plastic to see whether they would float or sink in water.

Every year in Arizona there are monsoon storms and somebody inevitably get's killed in a car that is sinking in water.

A couple drops will cause fleas to sink in the water.

Most of this wood is dense enough to sink in water.

Chinese junks, Russian and Mexican sailing ships, American coastal traders, and Gold Rush - era steam ships have all sunk in these waters.

As I wrote last week, a molasses spill is especially difficult to clean when spilled in water, because like tar sands oil or diluted bitumen, it is thick, sticky and sinks in water.

ExxonMobil's Pegasus rupture also helped underscore the environmental hazards associated with diluted bitumen, or dilbit, which is the combination of thick sludge - like oil, which tends to sink in water, and volatile solvents that evaporate and pollute the air.

Now, they understand that tar sands — very unlike conventional oil — sinks in water.

Because bitumen makes up 50 to 70 percent of the composition of dilbit, at least 50 percent of the compounds in dilbit are likely to sink in water, compared with less than 10 percent for most conventional crude oils.