Sentence examples for proportion of ice from inspiring English sources

There will also be a significant proportion of ice in the drinks.

The proportion of ice particles in a mixture of water vapour, liquid water and ice is not only temperature dependent, but is determined by the availabilityof ice nucleation sites and the growth of ice crystals by diffusion and accretion to form graupel (Rogers and Yau 1989; Pruppacher and Klett 1997).

Neptune's atmosphere, like Jupiter's and Saturn's, is composed primarily of hydrogen and helium, along with traces of hydrocarbons and possibly nitrogen; it contains a higher proportion of "ices" such as water, ammonia, and methane.

Miranda's density of 1.2 grams per cubic cm, which is somewhat less than those of the other major Uranian moons, suggests that it has a greater proportion of water ice to rocky material and other ices than these other bodies.

The ice fraction (defined as a proportion of total ice-like water molecules above the ice seed crystal), was measured over the 280 to 1000 ns time frame and found to equilibrate at 0.46 ± 0.01 (SD).

Ignatius Rigor was among those who pointed me to a particularly important one-time "flush" (my term) of thick old ice around 1989-90 thad han an enduring impact on the proportion of older ice from then on.

A major focus of the expedition is to examine the consequences of the Arctic Ocean having less of the so-called multi-year ice - older, tougher floes which have survived for several years - and a greater proportion of younger ice which is thinner.

Until recent decades, a high proportion of the ice was thick enough to survive the summer.

Its density of 1.71 g/cm³, which is much higher than the typical density of Saturn's satellites, indicates that it consists of roughly equal proportions of water ice and dense non-ice components; the latter could be made of rock and carbonaceous material including heavy organic compounds.

Oberon's density of 1.63 g/cm³, which is higher than the typical density of Saturn's satellites, indicates that it consists of roughly equal proportions of water ice and a dense non-ice component.

That in turn means that Pluto's proportion of less dense ice to rock is a bit higher.