Sentence examples for entrained dust from inspiring English sources

Nitrogen gas, escaping through vents in the overlying ice, carries entrained dust particles to heights of about 8 km (5 miles), where the dust is then transported downwind as far as 150 km (90 miles).

Sulfate in snow and corresponding glacier ice can be derived from a variety of natural and anthropogenic sources such as sea-salt aerosols, biogenic emissions, entrained dust particles, fossil fuel combustion, and metal smelting.

Unlike geysers on Earth, these represent eruptions of gas, together with entrained dust or ice particles, without liquid.

The Voyager 2 probe observed a handful of geyser-like eruptions of invisible nitrogen gas and entrained dust from beneath the surface of Triton in plumes up to 8 km high.

When a comet comes close to the Sun, the ices sublimate (go directly from the solid to the gas phase) and form, along with entrained dust particles, a bright outflowing atmosphere around the comet nucleus known as a coma.

Dispersible rock dust must be applied to the surfaces of entries in underground coal mines in order to inert the coal dust entrained or made airborne during an explosion and prevent propagating explosions.

Each eruption of a Triton geyser may last up to a year, driven by the sublimation of about of nitrogen ice over this interval; dust entrained may be deposited up to 150 km downwind in visible streaks, and perhaps much farther in more diffuse deposits.

However, ROXS42Bb data are simultaneously fit by atmosphere models incorporating several micron-sized dust grains entrained in thick clouds, although further modifications are needed to better reproduce the K-band spectral shape.

If it is entrained, the float coal dust presents a dangerous explosion hazard to miners when it reaches the minimum explosible concentration and is ignited.

The effects of different coal dust concentrations (10 300 g/m3) entrained into the mixture of methane air at three lean equivalence ratios, ϕ, of 0.75, 0.80 and 0.85, on the laminar burning velocity are studied experimentally.

"[The wind] picked up a lot of dust and got it entrained into the circulation of this storm system and pulled it all the way up into Minnesota where it fell with the precipitation," he said.