Sentence examples for puff of gas from inspiring English sources

The government and Repsol insist that nary a puff of gas will reach Chile.

Where its rivals are often said to compete on low costs, Schlumberger offers up technical expertise to seek out and grab every drop of oil, or puff of gas.

The short puff of gas emitted by the valve is moving at high velocity in the axial direction (1750 m/s for helium from a room temperature valve).

It sounds like a headline from the spoof newspaper The Onion, but for physicists, this is actually an achievement: Two teams have stored nothing in a puff of gas and then retrieved it a split second later.

Atoms in puffs of gas from the tank get stripped of their electrons, becoming naked protons, and then get sent on a Coney Island-style speed ride through a series of particle accelerators, eventually winding up in the main ring of the Large Hadron Collider — the mother of all particle accelerators.

An alternate method relies on locating puffs of gas called planetary nebulae, which middleweight stars like our sun eject at the ends of their lives.

Puffs of gas and small amounts of rock can leak from a volcano before an eruption; the composition can indicate the presence of magma near the surface, which could mean an eruption is imminent.

It wound itself up to avoid this outcome, and its liabilities vanished in a puff of poisoned gas.

However the LHC, which was commissioned to great acclaim in September 2008, closed down in a rather embarrassing puff of helium gas from its cooling system nine days later.

A leaky pipe inside a steam generator at the Indian Point 2 nuclear plant in Buchanan, N.Y., may have released a puff of radioactive gas into the atmosphere.

SINCE the debacle in Seattle last year, when efforts to launch a round of global trade talks went up in a puff of tear gas, there has been much hand-wringing about the need to make another push for a big new round.