Sentence examples for ice plug from inspiring English sources

Will ice plug up the pipe?

Mengel, M. & Levermann, A. Ice plug prevents irreversible discharge from East Antarctica.

In 2013 the ice plug was sampled, and the leader of the Russian team, Sergey Bulat, claimed that the sample had been contaminated by bacteria from the surface that lived in the kerosene.

Computer modelling shows that if the local ocean temperatures around the East Antarctic rise as a result of global warming, the ice plug will continue to melt to a point where the "bottle" of ice held within the Wilkes Basin becomes "uncorked".

At the moment it's still stable but if it melts then the ice plug alone will result in a global sea-level rise of between 5 and 8 centimetres, but the ice that it will release is going to cause 80 times that amount of sea-level rise," said Professor Anders Levermann of the Potsdam Institute.

The Wilkes Subglacial Basin (WSB) of eastern Wilkes Land, which holds an ice mass equivalent to a 19-m sea level rise19 and drains through marginal glaciers (e.g., Cook and Ninnis ice streams) near George V Land, functions as an ice plug to support the marine-based WSB.

Other regions are protected by so-called ice plugs, hindering the onset of a dynamic instability.

Relationships struggle when all they have to live on is stories of ice plugs, broken grease injectors and saying, "That's nice, honey".

The ice plugs temporarily dam one end of a pipe so that welded joints of other sections of pipe can be tested and inspected".

This creates the "ice cream plug" for your cone.

Challenges continue to mount for the Rangers, who must operate without Ryan Callahan, their captain and on-ice spark plug.