Sentence examples for devoid of ice from inspiring English sources

Water devoid of ice absorbs much more solar radiation than water covered with ice, which reflects much of the radiation back toward space.

Levels are so high that NASA's James Hansen thinks the Arctic, in summers, may be devoid of ice by decade's end.

There have been plenty of dramatic changes to our planet in the past: this spinning lump of rock has flipped from a "Snowball" Earth to searing temperatures devoid of ice; there have been times when life has flourished, and times when it has been beset by mass extinctions.

If these amphipods were totally dependent on sea-ice, the fact that the Arctic Ocean was most likely devoid of summer ice only 8000 years BP [ 2] suggests that the association must have evolved during a very short time period compared with the 60 Myr perspective associated with, for example, the evolution of Antarctic peracarids [ 28].

Salt of Antarctica There is still plenty of open space in Antarctica, including the Dry Valleys, landforms curiously devoid of the ice and snow that smothers the rest of continent.

Spectroscopic observations suggested that Io's surface was devoid of water ice (a substance found to be plentiful on the other Galilean satellites).

Devoid of life in general.

The sea was devoid of life.

And almost totally devoid of life.

Some coalescence occurred, dominating in ice creams devoid of solid fat.

The result of snow accumulating on a glacier and being compressed over thousands of years, this kind of ice is so dense — so devoid of air bubbles — that it absorbs long-wavelength light, which is why it appears mesmerizingly blue.