Sentence examples for mass sinking from inspiring English sources

The mass sinking may or may not have struck a blow against Confederate shipping, but it arguably marked the death of the great New England whaling fleet.

If the air mass sinks low enough, the air at higher altitudes becomes warmer than at lower altitudes, producing a temperature inversion.

However, since we sampled only in summer and winter, we cannot exclude the possibility of water masses sinking and being advected northward, earlier in autumn, thus exporting semi-refractory DOC [29].

In the present work, mass sources are connected with mass sinks through alternative "operators" (processes) whose exit streams are of different compositions.

The drying front was found to originate from the heat source (heated walls) for large permeability, and from the mass sink (head-space) for low permeability.

As a result, the water mass sinks less and the current that drags warm water up the Atlantic is weakened – scientists have already found that the current is at its weakest for a millennium.

The effect of adding external condenser to the still basin is to decrease the heat loss by convection from water to glass as the condenser acts as an additional and effective heat and mass sink.

The condenser heat capacity and surface area (finned) could be increased so that it will always be cooler than the other glass cover sides and act as a more effective heat and mass sink.

Contrary to previous approaches that simplify the problem by considering a tank of infinite extent in the horizontal direction and approximating the withdrawal tube as a point mass sink, the model presented here employs a detailed flow geometry of a finite-size tank with a withdrawal tube of comparable radius.

The marriage of the mass sink approach and theories of ductile failure would be interesting.

Mass movements on slopes and sinking mass movements are often aided by water and the significance of both types is the part each plays in the alteration of landforms.