Sentences with phrase «water whence»

So researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) asked themselves if it would be possible to characterize biological aerosols through the composition of the water whence they come.

«I acclaim you as the melodious fountain of water whence spring the souls of men2 and as the limpid crystal whereof is fashioned the new Jerusalem.

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Having spent years at an imaginary tiller while reading nautical books (whence all my detailed knowledge of water soaking), I looked confidently at the whitecaps and the gray squall coming out of the northwest, leaped in and shoved off.

Two summers later, as I wandered the house in post-midnight darkness, searching for a drink of water, an odd mewling sound dropped me into a crouch on the landing, whence, a week or so shy of my tenth birthday, I peered through the balustrade and thus caught my first stimulating glimpse of the primal mystery of the adult world.

To shorten the production process, I photographed images of selected architecture, landmarks, or monuments, printed them out on 5 cm sized paper, cut the images out very carefully, and then soaked the cut prints in a glass of water to re-photograph the prints within the landscape from whence they came.

Since liquid water weighs the same as the water vapor it condensed from, there is no change in the weight of the column of atmosphere above our parcel of air, whence the pressure remains unchanged, although the parcel may change (very slowly) in volume.