Sentences with phrase «water droplets suspended»

These are the forces exerted on the air by the water droplets suspended in it.

Moonbows are natural atmospheric phenomena that occur by the interaction between sunlight reflected off the surface of the moon and water droplets suspended in the atmosphere

In - flight ice forms at altitudes up to 7300 metres (24,000 feet), when the aircraft's surfaces hit supercooled water droplets suspended in the air.

Rainbows appear when light originating from the sun is refracted and reflected by small water droplets suspended in the air.

Not exact matches

Once they are dispersed, the tiny droplets of oil are more likely to sink or remain suspended in deep water rather than floating to the surface and collecting in a continuous slick.

A passive, durable, and effective method of water collection, fog harvesting consists of catching the microscopic droplets of water suspended in the wind that make up fog.

When the humidity is high, water vapor condenses around aerosols, forming tiny suspended droplets that spread around all wavelengths of sunlight equally — a fancy way of saying that water whitens the sky.

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.

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.

For one test, the team suspended a particle of sodium at one node, and a droplet of water at another — and then brought them together in a burst of fizzing (see a video at bit.ly / LevitationVid).

Such phase separation explains why anise - flavored liqueurs such as pastis and ouzo go cloudy when diluted with water; the cloudiness actually consists of tiny droplets of one phase suspended in the other.

The new method involves isolating small sections of thousands of genes in tiny droplets of water suspended in an oil.

Clouds form when water condenses on particles of dust, and rain falls when condensed water droplets grow too heavy to be suspended by updrafts in the atmosphere.

These water droplets, suspended in clouds, typically range from 20 to 50 micrometers — bigger than those in the simulations.

Principal investigator Livia Eberlin, a chemistry professor at the University of Texas at Austin, explained that it's designed to gently extract small molecules from the surface of living tissue using nothing but a suspended droplet of water.

You might wonder just what scientists could be able to do with suspending droplets of water or other light object.

While the suspended dust can temporarily block sunlight, the dominant effect in volcanic forcing is the sulphur, which combines with water to form sulphuric acid droplets.

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

Clouds are water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere.

Aerosols are liquid or solid particles suspended in the atmosphere (but not including water droplets or ice crystals).