The process involves drilling a bore hole and using explosives or water to force gas to the surface.
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When a player gets hit, the Kevlar fibers stretch and spread the force evenly across the surface, suppressing the shock.
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Coupled with a spacesuit, X1 could provide additional force when needed during surface exploration, providing even more bang for its small bulk.
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Hurlock is an Air Force employee working at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren.
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The boy's chin and lip were bruised and his lip cut inside, which in the doctor's opinion were caused by his chin forcefully striking a hard surface that, because of the degree of force, caused the bleeding to the brain.
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By adding cobalt and phosphates to water and passing a mild current through the solution with a glass electrode, Matthew Kanan and Daniel Nocera of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) were able to break water apart and force oxygen to bubble to the surface.
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Eventually, geological processes force some ancient sedimentary layers to the surface, briefly revealing embedded fossils but also exposing them to the elements, ensuring that unnoticed relics are rapidly eroded.
When B-1Bs went into action in Kosovo, air force commanders could see Serbian SA-6 surface-to-air missile radars track the planes.
By simply piercing the surface of the water, you set off an energy force within the body of water that extends outward, impacting anything it touches.
It could also be used with a camera-based position detection system as shown above, meaning your finger's location and force could be calculated on a non-active surface like an ordinary table.
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Derbyshire are still hoping to force their way into the promotion picture but a dead surface took the sting out of their limited attack.
By requiring speakers to carefully consider the meaning of their words, he hoped that his analytical language would force many of the subterranean quirks of human cognition to the surface, and free people from the bugs that infect their thinking.
While they may seem attractive theories on the surface, on closer inspection the research team found they could not be the driving force in the evolution of the lion's social lifestyle.
Sensors can analyse the surface of materials and, using the amount of resistance they show, work out the force to apply to an object.
Shatter cones are surface features with distinctive wavy patterns that are known to be created only by the tremendous force of a meteorite impact or an underground nuclear explosion.
The paediatric pathologist also said rib fractures on his body, missed by Dr Curtis at the initial post mortem, were inflicted with "considerable force" either through squeezing by someone with big hands or by crushing against a hard surface.
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Making a jumping robot is difficult because the downward force needed to propel it into the air usually pushes the legs through the water's surface.
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It was revealed that the radius and contact angle of the legs mainly accounted for the large supporting force, ensuring that the robotic water strider not only stood but also walked on the water surface.
But the provincial authorities, he argues, cannot force them to build local clinics instead of state-of-the-art hospitals, or to surface dirt roads instead of building showy suspension bridges.
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