Sentences with phrase «very thin layer of water»

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Marshalling convincing scientific data, they tell us that the environmental degradation caused by massive pollution of air water and land, threatens the very life of earth — fast depletion of non renewal resources, indeed of species themselves, the thinning of the ozone layer that exposes all living creatures to the danger of radiation, the build up of gases creating the greenhouse effect, increasing erosion by the sea — all these are brought out through their research.

Most papers are coated with a very thin layer of polythene to control water absorption and speed drying, and should not therefore be mixed with other waste paper destined for conventional paper recovery.

An exception occurs in a very thin layer of air (~ 1 mm for Earthly conditions) next to the surface (and for a thin layer of water underneath the surface, and for a thicker layer of the land surface material).

Only a very thin surface layer of the water can radiate since as you correctly point out IR doesn't penetrate through water.

As the air is very opaque (due to the water vapor optical thickness, except of course in the so called «water vapor window») the radiation from the air impinging on the surface originates mostly from a very thin layer above the surface [7].