Stepwise pumping is used to contain the floating oil plume and obtain efficient free oil recovery.
A brain floats with the plume of a jellyfish, which features dark solid lines snaking through it.
This brutal conjunction of beauty and violence – the remaining columns of the ancient city gold-hued against the leaden plume of destruction floating in the pure blue sky – is an image of sheer fanaticism, unbridled hatred, and the obliteration of everything anyone has ever called civilised.
The food truck was late, and white plumes floated up from mufflers as the drivers switched their engines on and off and on again to warm themselves with blasts of heat.
Scientists hope that probes floating around Mars will eventually see the plume.
"Imaging the Galápagos mantle plume with an unconventional application of floating seismometers," by Guust Nolet, Yann Hello, Suzan van der Lee, Sébastien Bonnieux, Mario C. Ruiz, Nelson A. Pazmino, Anne Deschamps, Marc M. Regnier, Yvonne Font, Yongshun J. Chen and Frederik J. Simons Scientific Reports, 2019, doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-36835-w.
Scientists believe that any plumes of radioactive material in the atmosphere are floating in the opposite direction — at least for now.
Harrison said he and his colleagues saw plumes of water containing coal ash particles, some floating on the surface and some underneath.
Furthermore, Flannigan explained, the complex carbons in soot released in a fire's plume can float in the atmosphere to, say, Greenland, and cause the country's ice sheet to melt faster.
The discovery triggered an investigation that ultimately turned up a plume of diesel that had soaked through the soil and was floating on the groundwater.
