As sediments form on the floor of the ocean and snow piles up,
trapping air bubble into ice, they store information concerning the climate of their day and the factors which affected it.
Not exact matches
If you combine this liquid with sugar, the two ingredients act exactly like and egg white sugar mixture: The protein is turned
into a foam and the sugar
traps and stabilises the
air bubbles.
Pour the cheesecake batter
into the prepared crust and gently tap the pan onto the countertop to release any
trapped air bubbles in the cheesecake batter.
I've been hoping to rig up a means to
trap and accumulate those
bubbles that come too few and far between in a short period of time, where once accumulated to a sufficient volume only then could I draw that collected
air up
into the block tester.
The project will bring insights
into Earth's climate cycle through the analysis of
air bubbles trapped in ice.
A given year's snowfall is compacted
into ice during the ensuing years,
trapping air bubbles, and so paleoclimate researchers have been able to glimpse ancient climates in some detail.
They drill down
into glaciers and study the
bubbles of
air trapped in ancient ice to find more information that can either prove or disprove an important hypothesis.
The paper, «Reconstruction of past atmospheric CO2 concentrations by ice core analysis», acknowledges that, due to impurities, liquid water can exist as low as -50 deg C. Diffusion of CO2
into this water, due to its far higher solubility than nitrogen and oxygen, will partially deplete the CO2 from
trapped air bubbles.
The knowledge, for example, that funnel web spiders can fall
into swimming pools and survive for up to 24 hours by
trapping air bubbles on hairs around their abdomen haunts me.