Sentence examples for floating sheet from inspiring English sources
Moreover, the floating sheet of ice that makes up the sea surface will travel, he says, and spread the oil when it melts.
In particular, we use the wrinkling instability of a thin floating sheet to measure the net stress applied by the deposit on the substrate and we focus on the effect of the particle polydispersity.
The Larsen B ice shelf on the peninsula's east side is a floating sheet of ice about 200 meters thick.
The eggs form a thin, floating sheet which may cover an area of 0.5-1 m2.
"I told the guys: 'When she gets alongside that rail, get out of this boat as fast as you can.'" Gillett looked down to see Sea Breeze half sunk underneath floating sheets of ice.
Recently, a panel of national health experts met in New Orleans to look into the potential health risks to thousands of cleanup workers and volunteers who are being exposed to the raw petroleum washing up on the beaches, as well as the chemicals in the dispersants being used to break up the floating sheets of oil.
Also, such a three-dimensional model can capture the possibility that floating sheets of detached substrate may slow cellulases from reaching a larger surface where more efficient digestion is possible.
To make prints from the negatives, she floated sheets of fine writing paper in a solution of egg whites, left them to dry, then soaked the albumen-coated paper in the silver nitrate.
Our work is motivated by environmental and industrial applications, as diverse as the statistics of waves in the ocean, wave impact on structures, floating ice sheet, gas transfer by surface breaking waves in the ocean, spray dynamics and cloud formation in the atmosphere.
The Wilkins Ice Shelf, a floating ice sheet several hundred feet thick the size of Connecticut, may sever its tenuous grip on the peninsula and join eight other large ice shelves that have departed since 1980.
A floating ice sheet of considerable thickness attached to a coast (usually of great horizontal extent with a level or gently undulating surface); often a seaward extension of ice sheets.
