Sentences with phrase «trapping air bubbles on»

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.

Not exact matches

Tap baking sheet hard on counter to release any air bubbles trapped in the batter.
Virtual dissection has been used to find air bubbles trapped in concrete, to spot grains of gold locked in rock, to identify writing on crusty rolls of papyrus, and to dissect the Kennewick man.
After a glaciologist from Alaska believed she heard trapped air bubbles escaping the ice, she teamed with other scientists from Texas to eavesdrop on bits of melting glacier ice taken from Gulkana Glacier in Alaska.
This creates a dense net of fibers that water can't penetrate — and it also traps air bubbles that prevent heat transfer, keeping water from freezing on the feather's surface.
When an ant does end up underwater, tiny hairs on its body can trap bubbles of air that give the bug a buoyancy boost.
The larger black bubbles on the left side are air trapped in the twisted stomach.
«the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) established a precise link between climate records from Greenland and Antarctica using data on global changes in methane concentrations derived from trapped air bubbles in the ice.»
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.
Two new features on Nature Reports Climate Change pay homage to the work of scientists who, over the last few decades, have been tireless in their efforts to extract clues about the Earth's past climate from air bubbles, isotopes and dust particles trapped in ice.
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