Sentence examples for volatiles from inspiring English sources

If both hyphae and roots had been blocked throughout the experiment, though, the volatiles from uninfested plants actually attracted aphids (they spent 3½ minutes in the volatiles' chamber), while the wasps were indifferent.

In other words, the volatiles from an infested plant attract wasps and repel aphids.Crucially, the team got the same result in the case of uninfested plants that had been in uninterrupted hyphal contact with the infested one, but had had root contact blocked.

Aphids, conversely, spent 1¾ minutes in the volatiles' chamber and 3¼ in the control.

The crash landing on July 31st of the Lunar Prospector spacecraft near the moon's south pole had the express purpose of releasing volatiles of a special kind: frozen water, insulated by geography and topography from normally high daytime temperatures.

This frozen water is protected from solar heat by the perpetual darkness of the shadows cast by the walls of craters there.Perhaps the most surprising find was that Mercury is rich in "volatiles"—elements such as sulphur, potassium and chlorine.

Each insect was placed for five minutes in an apparatus that had two chambers, one of which contained a sample of the volatiles and the other an odourless control.The researchers found, as they expected from their previous work, that when the volatiles came from an infested plant, wasps spent an average of 3½ minutes in the chamber containing them and 1½ in the other chamber.

Nonetheless, some temporary rise in volatility is probable.Monetary union might even make currencies more volatile permanently.

Live, and at its most exciting, it's much rougher, more fluid and more volatile than that.

After all, it's an entirely new concept, and its valuation (in dollar terms) has been tremendously volatile.

But some economists noted that the volatile nature of the payrolls data meant markets should not read too much into March's report.

Manchester's gay Mardi Gras has had a volatile past, with rows over organisation, security and the amount of cash (or lack of it) going to charities.