Sentence examples for heating soil from inspiring English sources

Hot water from such sources also is used for heating soil to increase crop production (e.g., in Oregon) and for seasoning lumber (e.g., in parts of New Zealand).

The winning solution was electro-bioreclamation, a combination of in situ techniques: heating soil and groundwater in the source areas, combined with soil vapour extraction and low-yield groundwater pumping, and enhancing biodegradation in the groundwater plume area.

Soil organic matter was estimated by measuring total carbon, which was determined by heating soil in a stream of high purity oxygen in a Leco furnace to produce CO2 and measuring this with an infrared detector.

Aspect determines the effect of solar heating, soil moisture and dryness of air (Yalcin 2008).

Post-heating soil sampling revealed TCE concentrations in this region ranging from 27 mg/kg to 96.7 mg/kg, indicating removal of aqueous and gas phase TCE following co-boiling as a result of subsequent boiling of water.

Part of the unburned soil was heated in a muffle at 300 °C (heated soil treatment).

But none of it made it past a screen and into the tiny chamber, one of eight on the craft designed to heat soil and test gasses for signs of water or organic compounds that could be building blocks for life.

Using Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars instrument — which heats soil and rock samples to examine their contents — astrobiologist Jennifer Eigenbrode and her colleagues were able to identify an array of interesting organic molecules: ring structures known as aromatics, sulfur compounds and long carbon chains.

Experiments performed here also suggest a synergistic effect between fire and rain whereby heated soils are more vulnerable to the erosive power of raindrop impacts.

Burn severity is important, Dr. Cannon said, because "heating the soil really changes how rainfall infiltrates into it".

They ran power through the electrodes for 288 hours, heating the soil and contaminants to 3,500 degrees Fahrenheit.