Sentences with phrase «water droplets on»

And it warms up water droplets on the ground, in grasses, leaves.

I couldn't see where in the equations the effect of suspended (or teminally falling) water droplets on surface pressure was handled.

Progressive recommends you check your oil level reading, and State Farm advises drivers to look for water droplets on the oil dipstick.

One of the big drawbacks about this device was the inability to use it if it was submerged in water or had lots of water droplets on the screen.

There is also problems if you have a bunch of water droplets on the screen, the Aura One thinks you are interacting with the touchscreen and will do random things.

I am seeing water droplets on inside of the glass that covers the headlights.

Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Lehigh, for example, has published articles with his students in Science and Langmuir describing their successful efforts to direct the movement of water droplets on surfaces.

And even the light that does reflect from potential obstacles will arrive at different times, having been deflected by water droplets on both the way out and the way back.

Putting water droplets on top coated them in just a single layer of silica.

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.

If the crystal encounters additional water droplets on the way down, riming can continue to the point at which the entire crystal is enveloped in an icy armor.

The irregularities trap air beneath any water droplets on the surface, preventing them from making contact.

This conclusion was experimentally validated by actively sliding a water droplet on solid surfaces with micro-holes and micro-pillars of various sizes while simultaneously measuring the resultant sliding friction forces.

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.

Not exact matches

Water droplets hang on the branches of my bare cherry tree.

Heat a large, wide pan (or griddle) over medium heat (or about 375 °F) until droplets of water sprinkled on the surface sizzle.

A water toy like this has endless potential: As your child becomes more skillful, he can help a doll or rubber ducky take a «shower,» he can take a shower himself like you, or he can make it «rain» over the water — and you can point out how the droplets make ripples on the surface.

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.

Here on Earth, our storm clouds are made of charged water droplets and hailstones.

Intriguingly, small droplets — which appeared to be water — were spotted in photos on the legs of the Phoenix lander.

On page 1589 of this issue, Kim et al. (2) use an evaporative cooling technique to cool micrometer - sized water droplets to deeply supercooled temperatures and provide evidence for the postulated critical point.

Unlike traditional pipettes, which draw up liquids using suction, the liverwort relies on the surface tension of the water to hold droplets, says study coauthor Hirofumi Wada, a physicist at Ritsumeikan University in Kusatsu, Japan.

Water droplets roll off lotus leaves partly because of the roughness of their surface on the nanoscale.

But because the scales tilt about 30 degrees upwards from the wing surface, they act like springs, bouncing away water droplets that land on them.

If the holes in the mesh are too large, water droplets pass through without catching on the net's wires.

There are gale - force winds whipping about the planet, its smoglike clouds are composed of droplets of sulfuric acid (rather than water) and, contrary to previous belief, there is lightning on Venus.

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.

While the particles are small in size, they are large in number, and they can form many small droplets on which the excess water vapor condenses.

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 a new twist, a group of South Korean researchers from Seoul National University and Dankook University report an anomalous water droplet - bouncing phenomenon generated by Leidenfrost levitation on nanotextured surfaces in Applied Physics Letters, from AIP Publishing.

The effect is more pronounced on plants with small hairlike structures, such as ferns, that hold the water droplet in place.

The procedure, described in the latest issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, centers on making droplets, which are a mixture of two or more immiscible, or unmixable, liquids — in this case, oil, water, and alcohol.

IN THE CLOUDS Many of the water droplets that make up clouds get a size boost from carbon - containing molecules that assemble on the droplets» exterior, new research suggests.

Story 3, droplets of water on a plant can focus sunlight to the point where the plant gets burned.

And story 3 is true, a study confirms what gardeners long suspected — droplets of water on plant leaves can focus sunlight like a magnifying glass, leading to burns on the leaves.

But if the sun shines in at a low angle, they can also appear when water droplets affix to certain surfaces, like the dew on this spiderweb.

So droplets of salty fluid on Mars would tend to absorb water vapour from the atmosphere, explaining why the clumps grew over time.

In 2005, chemical engineer William Ristenpart of the University of California, Davis, was studying the effects of electric charge on droplets of water suspended in oil.

In the morning, the chamber is closed, and sunlight entering through a window on top of the device then heats up the MOF, which liberates the water droplets and drives them — as vapor — toward the cooler condenser.

Over land, the small size of these aerosol particles tends to suppress rainfall because the water droplets that condense on them are light enough to remain aloft.

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.

The thousands of tiny water droplets that form on the glass scatter light, making oncoming traffic hard to see.

The researchers used water and water mixed with glycerin to create a model for predicting the velocity and height of the droplets, or jet aerosols, cast upward as bubbles on a liquid's surface burst.

Water droplet depositions on the ceiling eventually formed stalactites.

Rime forms when droplets of water vapor deposit directly as ice on surfaces.

Effects of plasma channels on ice formation or precipitation processes could not be proved in typical storm clouds, where ice crystals and subcooled water droplets coexist.

Snapshots of contact line configurations when water droplets slide on surfaces with micro-pillars.

A team led by applied mathematician Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan of the University of Cambridge, U.K., discovered that the wax is extremely water - repellant: Water droplets float on top of the needle tips much as ascetics rest on beds of nwater - repellant: Water droplets float on top of the needle tips much as ascetics rest on beds of nWater droplets float on top of the needle tips much as ascetics rest on beds of nails.