If a liquid has a vapor pressure of greater than atmospheric pressure, that liquid boils.
The screens are thinner and brighter than the typical liquid liquid crystal display screens.
Introducing the first two handsets of Acer's 2013 line-up: the Liquid E1 and the Liquid Z2.
The Sub-Zero Liquid Chilled System delivers freezing liquid to the CPU, completely smothering any heat it encounters.
Water from asteroids could be broken down in space to liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen for rocket fuel.
Liquid-fuelled rocket engines work by mixing the fuel (in this case kerosene) with liquid oxygen at high pressure.
Those floods, though, were not of liquid water but of liquid carbon dioxide.
The Ariane's core stage, which is prepared in northern France, uses liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen as its propellants.
The nurses had hung up a bag of liquid food for him, honey-colored liquid that went directly into his veins.
And we do indeed believe that more liquid markets are going to be better at prediction than less liquid ones.
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Liquid Helium and Liquid Nitrogen are incredibly dangerous in untrained hands and among some of the coldest substances in the universe.
Liquid Robotics and Wave Glider are registered trademarks of Liquid Robotics, Inc.
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Colloidal suspensions contain particles of one material (a solid or a liquid) dispersed in another (which can be solid, liquid or gaseous).
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Apart from burning more smoothly, and inflicting lower stresses on delicate satellites, liquid methane costs only 1% as much as liquid hydrogen.
Liquid cytology involves placing the smear specimen in a liquid for transport.
As for fixed income, investors prefer highly liquid Treasurys over other liquid markets, including Asia, which has a deep and liquid bond market.
They fill the container with pure air made by evaporating liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen, and add water vapour and some trace gases.
Bomb experts say that security checks are probably more likely to find the device that detonates a liquid bomb than the liquid explosive itself.
As for the liquid lens, Nippon Electric Glass' version uses low-power electric field to control its liquid crystal molecular orientation, thus changing the focal point.
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Meanwhile, what similar liquid-scanning technology has the TSA adopted in the six years since a would-be terrorist tried to blow up a plane with liquid explosives?
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Later versions submerged the needle in liquid inside a closed container--these "damped" compasses were more stable, since the liquid kept the needle from swinging and shaking.
This architecture also enables NASA to leverage existing capabilities and lower development costs by using liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen for both the core and upper stages.
The Powershares DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund ( DBC) is a widely followed and liquid ETF that tracks the changes in the Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity Index.
New technology, avidly sought today, could well spur any number of alternative energy sources: oil sands, oil shale, natural gas converted to liquid, coal converted to liquid, etc.
Here's the catch: To ramp the chip up to that wild speed, testers had to pour liquid Nitrogen and liquid Helium on top of it, in a sort of mad-scientist experiment.
Liquid-fuel reactors, such as MSRs, also offer inherent safety advantages: because the fuel is liquid, it expands when heated, thus slowing the rate of nuclear reactions and making the reactor self-governing.
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There seems to be a broader strategy, though, at IBM to introduce a more liquid, or what we would call, elastic, labor policy and the Liquid Challenge is an instance of this.
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"Liquid Robotics is proud to announce the PacX Science Board has selected five outstanding finalists to compete for the PacX grand prize, " said Luke Beatman, Oceanographer at Liquid Robotics and chairman of the PacX Science Board.
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CBM, a consultancy, the main potential for online bond-trading is in fixed-income securities that are already fairly liquid: these (notably government bonds and blue-chip corporate bonds) are likely to become more liquid, and more keenly priced.
And earlier this month, Airbus, in association with Shell, Rolls Royce and Qatar Airways, began a research project to test 'Gas to Liquid' (GTL) technologies that convert lower-emission natural gas and other synthetic fuels into liquid kerosene.
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