Sentence examples for propensity of water from inspiring English sources

Incorporation of such principles, specifically the propensity of water to flow downhill and natural convection to limit overheating of small objects, can make a reactor "inherently safe," according to the new design proponents.

Fractional anisotropy is a scalar measure of the diffusion anisotropy (i.e. the propensity of water to diffuse along, rather than perpendicular to, a nerve bundle).

Of particular interest is the propensity of localized water to be favorably displaced by a ligand.

A high level of salt in sweat would indicate a propensity to water retention, making a slave less likely to die of dehydration during the hideous crossing.

Experiments were performed to determine the water absorption propensity of four different corrugated boards oriented horizontally and exposed to vertical water sprays from above.

But the observed shallow minima in ΔG°t-composition profiles for M+ and H+ are indicative of the result of the oppositg effects of water structure breaking propensities and the protophobic character of ACN and their relative order is the combined effects of acid base, Born-type and soft soft interactions.

These include XlogP (the propensity of a molecule to partition into water or oil), the number of Hydrogen bond donors and acceptors, molecular weight, polar surface area, the number of rotatable bonds, a descriptor to indicate if the compound penetrates the blood-brain barrier and a descriptor for the number of reactive or toxic functional groups in the compound.

We postulate that the loss of perivascular AQP4 in MTLE is likely to result in a perturbed flux of water through astrocytes leading to an impaired buffering of extracellular K+ and an increased propensity for seizures.

David Shilston, president of the Geological Society of London, said: "The abstraction of water from the shallow ground surface can cause a collapse if the ground already has the propensity to collapse".

Since TyrD is likely predominantly in its radical state TyrD-O during crystallographic measurements, the distal water should show a greater propensity of occupancy in the solved structure.

This FT-NIR method was used to characterize water sorption through a carbohydrate matrix over time and measured both the propensity of the systems to form sucrose crystals and the influence sucrose crystals have on water sorption.