Sentence examples for intense temperature from inspiring English sources

The chance intersection of a strong high-pressure ridge, a wet spring, and an intense temperature inversion claimed more lives than Hurricane Andrew, the crash of T.W.A. Flight 800, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the Northridge, California, earthquake combined.

The tagline on the DVD cover of director Ted Kotcheff's 1971 film Wake in Fright reads "Sweat, dust and beer … there's nothing else out here mate!" In one sense that line encapsulates the eerie mundanity of Kotcheff's sun-scorched thriller, set in an outback town where intense temperature, desolate landscape and excessive alcohol consumption take a devastating toll on an unprepared visitor.

Inertial confinement is an alternative method in which small capsules of hydrogen-isotope fuel are crushed to produce the intense temperature and pressure needed for fusion to occur.

They also subjected the bacteria to various space parameters, including space vacuum, solar radiation and intense temperature fluctuations.

Granulite facies, one of the major divisions of the mineral facies classification of metamorphic rocks, the rocks of which formed under the most intense temperature-pressure conditions usually found in regional metamorphism.

Less intense temperatures and pressures form rocks of the epidote-amphibolite facies, and more intense temperatures and pressures form rocks of the granulite facies.

Johnson used titanium alloy instead of standard aluminum on the SR-71, which allowed high-speed flying despite intense temperatures.

Government interrogators have reportedly used such techniques as simulated drowning, sleep deprivation, loud music and exposure to intense temperatures to try to obtain information from detainees.

Minerals characteristic of such rocks include sanidine, corundum, cordierite, and sillimanite; glass from partial fusion or relict minerals from less intense temperatures may also be present.

Britain has canceled some trains on busy routes and imposed reduced, temporary speed limits on others to make sure that rails do not buckle in unusually intense temperatures nearing 95 degrees.

That got him thinking about Petrobras' ultradeep wells, which encounter intense temperatures and pressures.