Wet scrubbers are used to capture both particulates and SO2 by injecting
water droplets into the flue gas to form a wet by - product.
In Drip (2002), motion detectors trigger the release of
water droplets into steel buckets from twelve outstretched arms composed of tightly twisted plastic sheeting and tarpaulins, creating randomly generated drumming sounds that fall within rhythmic patterns.
Description: «A 3D physics based puzzle game where the goal is to get the falling
water droplets into their containers by using various bumpers, slides, sponges, etc..
A polymer coating that transforms opaque
water droplets into smooth transparent sheets could be used to keep car windows, bathroom mirrors and spectacles from fogging up.
Salter envisions unmanned boats spraying sub-micron-sized
water droplets into the sky, seeding shinier clouds in areas forecasted to spawn storms.
The measurement of thermal capillary waves, performed by Mr. Maayani, was made possible by turning
the water droplet into a device the researchers called an «opto - capillary resonator.»
Not exact matches
When
water droplets hiss and evaporate immediately, pour batter in 1/4 cup portions
into skillet.
* We think this might be because an oil
droplet was trapped inside a food colouring
droplet and sank, but as the edges of the food colouring
droplet diffused
into the
water suddenly the drop became lighter than the surrounding
water (thanks to the less dense oil at the centre) and floated upwards quickly...
Dispersants have been applied to oil slicks on the ocean surface for half a century to break petroleum
into smaller
droplets that dissipate
into waters of the open ocean so that less oil reaches ecologically sensitive coastlines.
The dancers are
water molecules, coalescing
into droplets and finally splatting on the ground.
Wergin and Erbe have used their low - temperature scanning electron microscope to infer what happens when falling ice crystals run
into fogs of supercooled
water droplets on their way down, a common occurrence.
That rejiggered liverwort could capture a
droplet when dipped
into water.
Aerosol particles act as seeds, around which
water vapour condenses
into cloud
droplets.
Water droplets and ice crystals in the atmosphere condensed on the infusion of dust particles and settled
into pouch - like formations due to wind currents.
Many clouds at mid-latitudes make rain by freezing
water into ice crystals (which fall from the cloud then melt before they hit the ground), rather than by coalescing warm
water droplets together.
But when the next cloud is far away, they keep ascending
into the layer, up to 4000 metres — above the height where
water droplets begin to freeze.
Sea spray
droplets are aerosol
water particles that are ejected
into the atmosphere as waves break at the ocean surface.
Ships would spray seawater
into clouds to create extra
water droplets, making the clouds whiter.
As a result,
water molecules tend to stick to one another; that adhesion is why
water forms rounded
droplets on a smooth surface and does not spread out
into a completely flat film.
In spray - drying, a mixture of
water and the material to be dried is forced through a sprinkler
into a high - temperature drum, instantly evaporating the
water droplets clinging to the material.
Water harvesting materials usually work by trapping
droplets or helping them travel
into a reservoir efficiently — they don't do both.
When thirsty, the beetle simply tilts up its backside, allowing accumulated
water droplets to fall
into its mouth.
«This analytical approach shows that the
water droplet isn't likely to penetrate
into the surface's nanoholes, which is advantageous for designing nonwetting,
water - repellant systems.
«New innovative method for delivering genes
into cells: Modification of cell physiological function with novel parallelized electroporation of mammalian cells by using electrostatic manipulation in a
water - in - oil
droplet.»
The team mixed molybdenum disulfide with
water and used the printing process to expel micron - size
droplets into an enclosed area about 2 feet high.
The researchers used a high - speed camera to record the way a large
water droplet falling
into an upward jet of air goes through the same process.
Scientists are keeping a close watch on variables that might affect life in the open ocean, including depleted oxygen levels caused by a feeding frenzy from oil - and gas - eating microbes, and the unknown effects of dispersants, which break the oil
into droplets but may keep it suspended in the
water.
Because the silica particles attract
water, «when you put a
droplet on that surface, the
water is drawn
into these pores instantaneously and wicked away
into a uniform sheet,» Rubner says.
When these forces meet, they launch a jet of
water into the air that contains
droplets ranging in size from one to 100 microns.
When the
water droplets evaporated, they generated a capillary force that crumpled the sheets
into miniaturized paper balls.
He made the particles by atomizing a dispersion of graphene - based sheets
into tiny
water droplets.
High - speed footage reveals that raindrops can carry soil microbes
into the air in tiny
water droplets.
The samples were analyzed in a quantitative DNA detector, a state - of - the - art device which separates each
water sample
into as many as 20,000
droplets and analyzes each of them for traces of manatee DNA.
When
water comes
into contact with an extremely
water - repellent, or «superhydrophobic» surface,
droplets bead up and roll off easily.
Tornadoes are visible because moist air condenses
into water droplets.
«Thermal motion on the outer surface of a
water droplet impacts many processes, including breaking of a single drop
into many smaller
droplets.»
Because
water droplets like to be circular, the clam - shaped beads tend to have surface tension (known as Laplace pressure) that forces them back
into the circular shape.
When tiny
water droplets in the air land on them, the needles» conical shape distorts them, nudging them
into a clamlike shape.
Clouds form when the invisible
water vapor in the air condenses
into visible
water droplets or ice crystals.
When petroleum leaks from a ship or a deep -
water drilling operation, «it tends to break up
into tiny
droplets that don't all end up on the surface of the ocean,» says Thomas Azwell, an environmental scientist at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, who was not involved in the work.
This little fellow sticks his butt in the morning air, so that minute
water droplets are attracted to the bumps and then run down his back and
into his mouth.
Indeed, conventional wisdom held that higher levels of aerosol pollution in the atmosphere should cool the earth's climate because aerosols can increase cloudiness; they not only reduce precipitation, which raises the
water content in clouds, but they also increase the size of the individual
water droplets, which in turn causes more warming sunlight to be reflected back
into space.
Under hurricane force wind, the air -
water interface was producing projectiles fragmenting
into sub millimeter scale
water droplets.
This fundamental drawback can be traced to the same reason a
water jet running from a faucet eventually splits up
into droplets: surface tension.
Experiments and simulations showed that a
water droplet on a repellent surface will freeze upward
into a microscopic six - armed formation that resembles an idealized snowflake, with only a small portion of its base adhering to the surface.
Then the researchers took the plants out
into the forest, mimicking the natural process by which young leaves are gradually colonized by fungi swirling in the air or contained in
water droplets when it rains.
When major banks of fog invade these forests, tree canopies intercept the wind - driven
water droplets via branches and leaves or clusters of needles that extend
into the air.
The researchers placed these liquid crystals
into water droplets, which in turn were placed in oil, producing an emulsion.
Sprayed from planes or boats, dispersants reduce the surface tension at the oil -
water interface, allowing waves to break the slick
into tiny
droplets.
Notice how the stretching of space spread the stars in spiral galaxies
into the same pattern as a spinning lawn sprinkler spreads
water droplets.