Previously, scientists had speculated that escaping steam might boost the kernel upwards in a "rocket" effect.
We mounded soil until there was no trace of escaping steam or smoke.
When the kernel cracks, the escaping steam causes the starchy interior to expand into puffy white flakes.
The fog seemed to have penetrated his brain from the outer world, because the whole deck of the dredge was lost in a roar of escaping steam.
At Furnas, the sibilant hiss of escaping steam and the hubble-bubble of boiling water gave the impression of a pressure cooker about to blow its top.
Installed in a waste incineration plant, it will transform the site's twin chimneys and their escaping steam into an ever-changing multicoloured creation.
Now, new ones from Tangiers, Morocco, are completely glazed, but accomplish the same purpose with a tiny air vent for the escaping steam.
He described the basic principles of steam power, and is said to have invented a steam-powered device in which escaping steam caused a sphere with two nozzles to rotate.
The singing, though, is pitch-shifted and filtered, and the recognizable motifs of the first half are no more important than the blasts of sound (perhaps escaping steam?) that dominate the second half.
Firefighters who climbed the walls down into the tunnel found a panorama of horrors: three men hanging out a window in mid-escape, but scalded to death by escaping steam; Amanda F.
I loved the sound of a shrimp, scallop and corn "potpie" ($14.50), and the combination is delicious, yet that blast of escaping steam when you break through the crust is the last thing you want in summer.
