Sentences with phrase «water pressure within»

Short - term plant movements are caused by changes in water pressure within tissues.

The movement has to be connected to variations in water pressure within the plants, and this effectively means that the tree is pumping.

Not exact matches

While I understand the desire to switch to a domestic energy source and the financial enticement of that, high - pressured hydraulic fracturing, which is a relatively new form of fracturing within the decade, has been linked to a 1000 cases of groundwater contamination, including flammable tap water in Colorado, methane explosions in West Virginia, and poisoned, flammable water in Pennsylvania.

As the subducting plate sinks deeper into the earth, it encounters higher and higher temperatures and pressures, which release the significant amount of water trapped in waterrich minerals that exist within the slab.

Then, they'll fire beams of heavy ions such as uranium at the container until the water within is sweltering under temperatures thousands of degrees Kelvin and pressures of several million atmospheres.

Schmidt's colleague Don Blankenship says he will be paying close attention to how Vostok's water flows under such pressure because that will reveal how easily the ingredients of life could interact within Europan lakes.

However, this approach did not account for capillary pressure triggering water to move within pores.

The activity begins deep in a geyser's underground plumbing (video), where high - pressure water boils, sending bubbles up through a narrow column of water within the overlying rock.

The water contained within ringwoodite in the transition zone is forced out when it goes deeper (into the lower mantle) and forms a higher - pressure mineral called silicate perovskite, which can not absorb the water.

«The DIC lakes are situated within bedrock troughs in mountainous terrain, exist at temperatures well below the pressure - melting point, do not receive surface meltwater input, and likely consist of hypersaline water derived from dissolution of a surrounding salt - bearing geological formation,» the researchers reported.

methane hydrate Molecules of methane gas trapped — and compressed under pressure — within a lattice of water ice.

The team found that, at the high pressures expected in the moon's ocean, icy materials called clathrates could form that imprison methane molecules within a crystal structure of water ice.

One is that salt attracts water to the blood stream, increasing blood volume and therefore increasing pressure within the blood vessels.

Water is in your bloodstream and within each cell in your body where it plays a powerful role in vital functions, like transporting, nutrients and gases, maintaining proper electrolyte balance, controlling body temperature, and preventing a rapid drop in blood pressure.

Drinks like tonic water, soda pop, and Perrier can increase pressure levels within your stomach, which results in an increased production of gastric acid.

A high - pressure oil pump maintains lubrication, while an oil / water cooler and an oil / air radiator constantly keep temperatures within range even under extremely high load.

William Pye thought up the swirling vortex design, which uses high - pressure water pumped within an acrylic cylinder.

Methane clathrate, a form of water ice that contains a large amount of methane within its crystal structure, remains stable under a combination of high pressure and low temperature.

Coke bottles are carbonated at 3 - 7 bar (depending of water temperature) within a few seconds, but the CO2 pressure in the atmosphere is 0,0004 bar.

The question seems to be whether there really is something new in this that is not already implicit in the known workings of the water cycle and adiabatic ascent and descent within the main high and low pressure cells that together form our permanent climate zones.

The size of the temperature differential between air and water combined with the rate of movement of both air and water within the region of interaction dictates the rate of evaporation and the density and pressure differential dictates the direction of energy flow which on Earth is always continuous at variable rates from water to air.

An independent check on globally vertically integrated water vapour amounts is whether the change in water vapour mass is refl ected in the surface pressure fi eld, as this is the only signifi cant infl uence on the global atmospheric mass to within measurement accuracies.

The device would work by using the force of the ocean to lower the pressure within the device, creating water vapor even at low temperatures.

«According to our consulting dermatologists, they are likely from sweat, water, or soap being held against the skin under the device, or from pressure or friction against the skin and should resolve quickly when users take a break from the device, usually within hours or days.»

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.