A few seconds of rest transformed the air into dense steam billowing from the mouths of the dogs.
A hidden electric resistance heats the sculpture's head up to 300 °C, so that the splashing water, conveyed by a hydraulic system, forms a dense steam as it hits the hot metal surface (Fig. 1a, b).
You're left to sit inside for close to three hours and take in the dense steam and allow your body to drain out those years of binge-drinking and fast food.
The air was dense with steam and our bodies were jellylike.
This liquid pool, being denser than steam, is not easily displaced by the steam phase and prevents live steam from flowing directly into the producer.
Where the fog becomes particularly dense, the striped steam vents are used to carry the steam above windshield level, to keep the view unobstructed for passing drivers.
Steam generators, dense nests of thin-walled metal tubes holding radioactive water, have long been considered one of the weakest links in the intricate chain of equipment inside a nuclear plant.
Overly dense, too, were tamales steamed in corn husks.
The "dense smoke" produced by the steam barges and their "harsh unnecessary whistling" proved unpopular with some local residents, who also began to suffer from a condition known as canal throat, "no doubt caused by the foul emanations given off by its [the Bridgewater Canal's] horribly filthy water".
Table favorites include a strawberry mousse with kiwi sauce, a banana wrapped in rice paper and fried, a mango and yogurt cheese mousse with strawberry sauce and a dense, not-too-sweet Thai steamed coconut custard that stopped conversation and brought all spoons to the ready, for more satisfaction.
The idea may have seemed heretical when it was whispered decades ago, but it has been proved over and again: Langer's Delicatessen serves the best pastrami sandwich in America; dense and smoky, heavily peppered, steamed until it is tender and juicy, thickly hand-sliced, and gently layered onto crunchy-crusted double-baked rye.
