Fracking involves drilling a borehole before a high-pressure water mixture is directed at the rock to release the gas.
Settling pond: man-made depression created to receive water and sand mixture directly from a dredging operation.
Not only does it take a huge amount of water but the mixture that comes back up is filthy.
First, though, he had to dive through a 40-foot vertical patch of murky, water-oil mixture that began 20 feet below the surface.
The masons wore leather safety harnesses, and their daily wine was diluted by a third with water (a mixture usually reserved for pregnant women).
One uses the ejection of a water-alcohol mixture to provide thrust.
For example, some 1, 000 barrels of crude oil, water and gas mixture poured onto the tundra after a 2-foot gash formed in a pipeline in November 2009.
Oil sands are naturally occurring geologic formations that contain a mixture of water, sand, and bitumen.
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The next step is to try to staunch the flow proper with drilling mud, a mixture of water and clay minerals.
By the time the roses arrive early Wednesday morning, 4, 125 vials have been prepared with a mixture of water and floral preservative.
In fracking, a mixture of water, sand and some chemicals is pumped into a well under high pressure to force the gas from the rock.
The first well supplies oxidants (a mixture of water and air or water and oxygen), which are injected into the location where the process is actually occurring.
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It's a mixture of water, coconut by-products, sodium carbonate and water-soluble silicone, blended with the notion that eco-sensitive customers will gladly substitute some elbow grease for a garden hose.
On reaching the shale, the mixture of water and fracking fluid bursts open the rock and the sand keeps the fractures open, allowing the gas to flow to the surface.
This year he completed what is believed to be the first ever fracture stimulation procedure in Turkey: injecting a mixture of water and sand at high pressure down the wells to break up rock and release gas.
She also melted chocolate with porcini powder and streamed ribbons of the mixture into cold water to form thin branches.
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Other solutions are more complex, but still cheap, such as injecting a sugary mixture into a water supply contaminated by hexavalent chromium to make it less toxic and less mobile underground.
It involves spraying a tiny (0.15x0.15mm) area of a fingerprint with an electrically charged mixture of methanol and water.
Essentially, a mixture of salt, water and sugar in the right proportions.
They work by pouring a mixture of clay and water, called slip, into them and letting the clay set into the shape.
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Where there is less sand they, like Mr Serrato, can mix it into the soil, but the mixture does not hold water so well.
It extracts oil from the ground using a method called fracking - pumping down a mixture of sand, water and chemicals at high pressure.
Under the process of fracking, oil or gas is extracted from shale rock by pumping a mixture of sand, water and chemicals into the rock at high pressure.
If you grind it with a hot pepper we call rocoto, and you put garlic and a little bit of salt and water, you get a blended mixture that is very good with boiled potatoes.
Both cities were built on estuaries, allowing the constant yet changing mixture of fresh and salty water that oysters love.
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The machine blends iron, bleach and sodium hydroxide to form a dark purple liquid mixture of ferrate, salt and water that gets metered into the water supply. (The color disappears instantly as it reacts with the water.) Common disinfectants ozone and chlorine can turn the water cloudy or, worse, leave behind harmful chemical by-products.
This mixture dissolves readily in diesel fuel and binds water to it without any need for stirring.
The inner two appear, from their densities, to have a lot of water or methane or ammonia in them (or any mixture of the three), along with hydrogen and helium.
He thus put together a collection of apparatus that would not have disgraced the set of a mad-scientist horror film, and filled it with a mixture of methane, ammonia, hydrogen and water vapour that matched contemporary ideas of what the primitive terrestrial atmosphere had been composed of.
"The guess is that both the water and the dark material, which we think is organic-rich material, were delivered by the same objects impacting Mercury: some mixture of comets and the kinds of asteroids that are rich in organic and volatile material like water ice, " Prof Solomon said.
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