Sentence examples for before reaching the surface from inspiring English sources

One of the latter had been able to make a call on his mobile phone before reaching the surface.

The chondrites usually burn up before reaching the surface, or turn to mud or dirt when they come into contact with water.

Unless the rate of flow is fast enough, methane that bubbles from the seafloor usually dissolves in the seawater before reaching the surface, he said.

In addition to the two broad superplumes that everyone sees, beneath Africa and the South Pacific (Science, 9 July 1999, p. 187), the new method also shows narrow plumes rising off them, sometimes splitting before reaching the surface.

This could be elucidated by the possibility of the photoelectrons and photoholes generation in the bulk would, in smaller particles, have fewer traps and recombination centers to overcome before reaching the surface [44].

In tissue, the emitted light is then highly scattered and absorbed before reaching the surface, and the tissue optical properties tend to favor the transmission of the red-infrared light, where the Cerenkov emission is minimal.

Every day the Earth gets hit with dozens of these space rocks, but most are so small that they burn up in the atmosphere before ever reaching the surface.

When an ink is not needed, it is deflected before reaching the paper surface.

Furthermore, the photons were blocked before reaching the photocatalyst surface; hence, the adsorption of photons was decreased by the photocatalyst.

The experimental procedure uses a 25-mW laser, which continuously decreases before reaching the section surface, and complete Raman spectra in the required region were acquired.

This may ultimately even cause plant death when energy reserves are depleted before reaching the water surface (Das et al. [2005]).