Sentences with phrase «water when»

They allow the fish to jump out of the water when a predator threatens from below, and then to glide through the air for a short distance.

In contrast, the new high - tech suit shuts off the flow of water when it gets cold by swelling to fill in the gaps between diver and suit, reports engineer Alec Jessiman of Midé Technology Corp. in Medford, Massachusetts.

The researchers tuned the gel to absorb 20 to 30 times its original volume of water when temperatures dipped below 20 °C.

However, this nitrogen isn't permanently removed from the ecosystem and can be re-released into the water when plants die months or years later.

Introduction Pop science quiz: What happens to water when it reaches 0 degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit)?

• Stop adding water when all of the cornstarch has flowed together like a liquid.

A quirk of silver carp behavior — an exaggerated startle response, causing them to leap from the water when boats approached — revealed their enormous, unexpected populations in the rivers of the Midwest.

Fox's research, funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA, was designed to test his theory that rubber trees, which are exotics from the South America, differ from native vegetation in that they suck up most of their water when the soil is the driest at the beginning of the monsoon season.

through Nov., the tortoises hibernate, only coming out of their burrows to drink water when it rains.

Even with the closure of their stomata, plants still lose water when it's hot, and hydraulic failure — a lack of water a tree needs to survive — poses at least as much a threat as carbon starvation.

He agreed that overstatements about the impacts are rampant in the Himalayas as well, saying, «The idea that 1.4 billion people are going to be without water when the glaciers melt is just not the case.

There's little point in installing clean water when people are contaminating that water by doing their business in or nearby it.

«One - third of the water in the United States is exported as virtual water when a number of major water systems in the United States are in a catastrophic decline.

These accelerate the splitting of water when irradiated by light.

G.W.'s Davis is part of a project researching the disease schistosomiasis (a.k.a. snail fever or swimmer's itch), a blood parasite transmitted to humans by snails; people can get it by swimming or wading in contaminated fresh water when infected snails release larvae that can penetrate the skin.

The results revealed that dissolved organic carbon is efficiently removed from ocean water when heated.

Indeed, the perfect solution already exists: a carbon - free fuel cell that strips combustible hydrogen from a molecule like water or alcohol and yields only water when it is burned.

The Japanese sea catfish is the first fish known to track its prey by the trails of acid they create in the water when they breathe

Elevated iodide in surface water can promote the formation of highly toxic byproducts in drinking water when the iodide mixes with the chlorine used to disinfect the water at municipal treatment plants located downstream from oil and gas operations.

How do fish end up in isolated bodies of water when they can't swim there themselves?

Hydrogen gas is a promising alternative energy source to overcome our reliance on carbon - based fuels, and has the benefit of producing only water when it is reacted with oxygen.

Researchers have suspected that abundant aqueous fluid exists in the deep mantle, ferried there by slabs bearing water - rich minerals that shed their water when they reach the transition zone (SN: 7/12/14, p. 9).

To settle the issue, Ward and Babbin decided to look at exactly what was going on in anoxic ocean water when bacteria were given nitrogen and other nutrients to chew on.

It even has special technology that makes mopping more reliable, only releasing water when it stops to scrub to prevent any damage.

Cleaning is easy, just rinse it in tank water when change the water.

Now a local Indian civil engineer has mastered the art of making «artificial glaciers» that deliver water when it's needed most — in the early spring, right after farmers sow their single crop of wheat, barley, or peas.

BOSTON — Hydrogen gas is a tantalizing fuel source because it generates only water when burned.

They're made to keep from fogging up, so you'll have to drag your kids out of the water when it's finally time to head home.

The Upper West Mirror is the best fog free shower mirror that requires you to simply splash it with some hot, soapy water when you take your shower and it will be ready to go.

First of all, if done correctly, it doesn't cloud the water when you're filling your tank.

Its ancestors may have left the ocean for fresh water when sea - level rise opened up new habitats about 6 million years ago.

Greenport Village Mayor George Hubbard is hoping to use some of the $ 1.3 million the village received from the Long Island Power Authority and PSEG - Long Island to do drainage projects at numerous road - ends in the village, in hopes of preventing contaminants from being carried into surface water when it rains.

Enck, who was the first official to tell people in the village of Hoosick Falls not to drink the water when it was found to be contaminated with the chemical PFOA, said she doubts her successor at the EPA would be that proactive.

At the Tuesday press conference in Washington, NBC News interviewed Young, who Udall noted drank PFOA - contaminated well water when her family lived in the Rensselaer County town of Petersburgh.

«You can't sit there and say about taxes and sewer and water when you're not feeling the pain that the average taxpayer is feeling out there,» Kunzwiler said.

Kim Kardashian acted like a diva by demanding Smart Water when offered Fiji water and Perrier Jouet when offered Veuve Clicquot while making a paid appearance at Room Service.

According to Owoseni, the woman was about to jump into the water when a police patrol team on a routine patrol on the Third Mainland Bridge sighted her and rushed to save her before she jumped into the Lagoon.

I asked if the governor himself would exact retribution from Senate Republicans by coming out against them in 2012, or, at the very least, openly pushing to help the Democrats reclaim the majority — a move that got former Gov. Eliot Spitzer in hot water when he took office in 2009 with the GOP still in power.

But the Ukip leader got himself in hot water when he used the term «coloured people» during the interview.

She says they have more than 40,000 sandbags stockpiled and are working out how to utilize aqua dams, giant refillable tubes that block water when laid down.

So it's no surprise that Labour MPs are the ones who have found themselves in deep water when it comes to private education.

«It borders on morally being unacceptable to spend hundreds of millions of pounds on bottled water when we have pure drinking water, when at the same time one of the crises that is facing the world is the supply of water,» he told the BBC Panorama programme.

You knew before the April rains that the lake was high... They blew it because they didn't release the amount of water when they could,» said Cuomo.

One side looked to oil, while another looked to water when the Douglaston Civic Association hosted a hydrofracking debate forum last Thursday night.

But Sanders blew Clinton out of the water when it came to grassroots fundraising, taking in $ 10.4 million (or 68 percent) of his warchest from $ 200 - or-less donors.

We know their pockets are being lined, but will they be supplied with fresh water when we all have contaminated water?

They just need some gentle washing with warm water when they are so young.

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One of the benefits of having a natural birth experience includes having more control over the birth process; things that seems so simple when you're not operating under hospital rules stay that way: you can have a drink of water when you want one; the father can participate as fully as he wants to (short of actually having the baby for you, of course).

Only use cold or cool water when attempting to remove baby formula stains.