Sentences with phrase «when soot»

I was perhaps a little more cautious than others, having experienced in a prior residence, a cracked heat exchanger in a gas furnace, where the net result was a sixty three thousand dollar insurance claim, when a soot like residue permeated every wall, ceiling, and brand new broadloom in the whole house.

When soot falls on snow and ice it increases the amount of light and heat that is absorbed, just like any reflective surface.

It's a problem for the climate because the black soot particles are just the right color to absorb heat from the sun, either in the upper atmosphere or when it settles back down to earth on Arctic snow and ice (when soot - free, the polar ice caps reflect a tremendous amount of light and heat back into Space, helping keep the planet cool).

Modern diesel powered vehicles are also equipped with diesel particulate filters (DPF) or diesel particulate diffusers (DPD), which remove particulate matter (soot) from exhaust gases and, like catalytic converters, reach temperatures of 500 - 900 °C during the «regeneration» phase, when the soot is effectively incinerated inside the DPF or DPD unit.

... «When soot is there it heats the snow.

When the soot absorbs the sunlight it warms and could increase the melting of the glacier.

And when soot falls on snow or ice, as in the Arctic, its ability to trap heat from the sun helps hasten melting.

Not exact matches

They make a squeaky murmuring sounds when excited, and dissolve into powder (soot) if crushed.

When grill temperature is down to medium (about 400 °), scrub cooking grate with a grill brush, then wipe grate with a clean, dry rag to remove soot.

Heat the room at the touch of a button and don't worry about smoke or soot, when you make AKDY your choice.

The postdoctoral associates and students were initially worried when they noticed what appeared to be soot on a flexible film they were designing to coat various products.

The yellow color is due to radiating soot particles, which form when there is not enough oxygen to burn the fuel completely,» said Elaine Oran, Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering and co-author of the paper.

When England passed its version of the clean air act, decreasing the amount of soot that factories were allowed to emit, the birch trees eventually returned to having white bark again.

Aerosol chemist Markus Ammann of the Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen, Switzerland, and his colleagues, suspected that soot particles — spewed when fossil fuels are burned — might have a hand in creating nitrous acid.

However, when the Industrial Revolution occurred, soot from factories covered the birch trees» white bark, turning them black.

Concentrations of two other chemicals in the ice cores, vanillic acid (a chemical formed when conifer forests burn) and non — sea salt sulfur (a primary component in acid rain), helped distinguish between soot from natural sources and that from industrial pollution.

Even when additional reduction measures are implemented against black carbon, or soot, which is released when fossil fuels are burned, they do little to slow down global warming in a 2 degrees scenario.

WHEN you hear «air pollution», you probably think of the brown pall of soot that hangs over so many Asian cities.

When they incorporated aerosol soot into the simulations, the resulting haze even more dramatically enhaced solar heating, thereby further increasing temperatures and lowering relative humidities.

The clearest example yet of humanity's influence on atmospheric electrostatic discharges, however, surfaced recently when researchers discovered dense trails of lightning in the soot - filled skies over two of the world's busiest shipping routes in the Indian Ocean and South China Sea.

20 Snow is near - pure crystallized water, but when it collects on the ground it acts as a reservoir for atmospheric pollutants such as mercury and soot.

When used during fire suppression and over-haul stages, the self - contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) protects the highly susceptible respiratory tract from toxic combustion products in smoke and soot.

The sulphur in the lower atmosphere below 15kms is reflecting sunlight back into space but the black soot also a component in the ABC's is heating when bombarded with solar radiation and warming the atmosphere up to 15kms dramatically affecting cloud formation and monsoon / drought cycles.

By pinpointing sources of soot that would make the biggest difference when cut, the study points to areas where cutting pollution could provide a large impact.

At the same time, increasing depth and duration of drought, along with warmer temperatures enabling the spread of pine beetles has increased the flammability of this forest region — http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v1/n9/full/nclimate1293.html http://www.vancouversun.com/fires+through+tinder+pine+beetle+killed+forests/10047293/story.html Can climate models give different TCR and ECS with different timing / extent of when or how much boreal forest burns, and how the soot generated alters the date of an ice free Arctic Ocean or the rate of Greenland ice melt and its influence on long term dynamics of the AMOC transport of heat?

Microscopic specks of soot, dirt, acid, and other pollutants are constantly being released into the atmosphere in metropolitan areas (cars, factories, construction sites, etc.), and when these particles come into contact with your skin, they penetrate deep into the layers of the epidermis, causing inflammation, dehydration, and reactions on the cellular level.

Methol comes from various plant sources, like peppermint, and you may even find that peppermint tea bags when applied at certain sites of irritated skin may have a calming and sooting effect.

When we come to it When the curtain falls on the minstrel show of hate And faces sooted with scorn are scrubbed clean When battlefields and coliseum No longer rake our unique and particular sons and daughters Up with the bruised and bloody grass To lie in identical plots in foreign soil

Throttle body air valve getting stuck closed because of soot in the intake causing to harden when engine is powered off and not releasing when trying to start it.

Mercedes says the special shape of the engine's steel pistons, which run in motorsport developed «nanoslide» cylinder coatings, reduce soot build - up even when running at low speeds.

When adjustments are made for equipment options, the BlueMotion is even more economical than previous TDI versions with 105 PS and soot particulate filter.

The black trains come smoking along twice a day, and in the summer when the house windows are open, the help wipes the soot off the horizontal faces of furniture at least three times a week.

When burned, the paraffin is thought to release carcinogenic soot which can aggravate a number of respiratory issues like asthma, as well as heart issues.

They also swallow carcinogenic dust, soot and ash when they groom themselves.

Curated by the Menil's Michelle White, the first retrospective exhibition of Bontecou's drawings spans more than five decades of her career, from the late 1950s, when she began her innovative works on paper using a welding torch and soot, to ongoing work from her Pennsylvania studio.

Among the many noted works on view are 13 films by Polke, including eight which have never before been available; a performance made for West German television that was last seen when it aired in 1972; and a group of monumental paintings made entirely of soot on glass that have never been exhibited in the United States.

On the other hand, this is a big maybe, soot and other pollution when it is in the air I am guessing could reduce the strength of sunlight that reaches the glacier and this possibly could reduce the melting.

When there are alternative explanations for arctic ice melt (historical writings that suggest natural periods of very rapid decline, ever - increasing levels of soot that can cause and accelerate melting), how can you be so certain that the cause is CO2 - induced?

I am a strong proponent of controlling pollution, not just CO2 (soot has done much to reduce the ice's albedo) and it is preposterous that China is being given such latitude as a «poor nation» when it's also building skyscrapers by the dozen, nuclear submarines and a space program while effectively employing its youth as feedstock for manufacturing goods subsidized by their government.

In a century when the roots of environmental problems often lie half a planet away (consider the ivory trade, or the contribution of greenhouse gases and soot to Arctic ice melting) what's needed most is collaborative post-departmental journalism, not individual desks and editors competing for the front page.

A bit of soot on ice under sunlight allows melting to occur, even when the temperature is 0C.

In other words, the U.S. has cleaned up its act, while developing countries are the culprits when it comes to soot emissions [and China is only one example; India, Russia, Brazil, and a hundred smaller countries are doing the same thing].

In 1997, when the Clinton administration was finalizing the first - ever air quality standards on fine soot, protesters in white lab coats appeared on Capitol Hill holding signs that said, «Harvard, release the data!»

It's ironic that misinformed environmentalists blame ethanol for deforestation, when in some parts of the world, it's actually helping to reduce respiratory disease, infant mortality, and black carbon soot from burning trees.

The soot mode number concentration was low with both fuels tested, in particular when HFO was used.

But it's also the by - product of fossil fuel combustion, and when a refinery or power plant reduces its greenhouse gas emissions (by becoming more energy - efficient, for example), it also releases fewer smog - forming chemicals like nitrogen oxides, less of the sulfur dioxide and soot that can irritate lungs and cause respiratory disease, and fewer toxic emissions linked to cancer and neurological disorders.

Soot absorbs incoming solar radiation and can speed glacial melting when deposited on snow in sufficient quantities.

When Kaser's team looked at ice cores previously drilled at two sites high in the western Alps — the Colle Gnifetti glacier saddle 4,455 m up on Monte Rosa near the Swiss — Italian border, and the Fiescherhorn glacier at 3,900 m in the Bernese Alps — they found that in around 1860 layers of glacial ice started to contain large amounts of soot.

Soot particles absorb the sun's heat and melt the ice when they settle on glaciers.

When we understand the roles of wind, sst, air temps, and circulation better, then we will be able to frame and isolate the less well known: soot and dust.