Two degrees is the difference between water being liquid and water being a solid.
Moreover, the sorts of fields that Western oil firms are starting to develop, in very deep water, or of nearly solid, tar-like oil, are ever more technically challenging.
S. in civil engineering from the University of Utah and a masters in design from Stanford, owns more than 50 patents on water control, lighting and air-compression devices, as well as laminar stream technology, which turns water jets into shapes that appear solid and motionless.
At one fetid pit in a jungle glade, he stepped gingerly onto the surface of the pool, where the solid matter in the produced water had congealed into a tarlike crust that was sturdy enough to support him.
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Weep hole: hole through a solid revetment, bulkhead or seawall for relieving water pressure.
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We learn why water, unlike most of the substances we run into on Earth, is denser in its liquid than in its solid form (H2O molecules are kinked rather than straight, so the space between them increases when water is quiescent).
Even if he's not rebuilding his physical house anywhere near the water, Rayburn's financial house is newly constructed on solid ground.
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It also felt like a callback to a solid bit from Season 1, in which a water bottle tumbling from a high window crushed a different car.
Solid food has to be pulverised first with a bit of water or buffer solution.
That shift rips protons from the molecular chains of Dr Kiser's jelly-like solid, leaving exposed negative charges primed to form bonds with water molecules.
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He walked fifty feet downshore, stepped onto the pond, walked a wide loop on the solid stuff, turned to shore, started toward the black water.
Unlike any other course in Britain, every fence at Aintree besides the water jump is covered with spruce, giving them the look of a solid hedgerow.
Along the perimeter, rising ramps accentuate the elevated plane of the lawn, while colossal wedges of solid granite form an embankment emerging from the riprap at the water's edge.
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As my eyes adjusted, I realized that this seemingly solid carpet of green was actually a large, dense grouping of water hyacinth, throbbing with electric blue and crimson dragonflies, spindly mottled spiders and monstrous ants.
Doctors, however, aren't so convinced that these plunges are good for you, noting that there is no solid evidence of any physical health benefits associated with swimming in freezing cold water.
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Stepping cautiously through the slime until he reached solid ground, looking disoriented, he regarded his image in the shallow water of the river while the paratroopers dried their feet with an old shirt, then pulled on their socks and boots and rolled down their pants.
At certain moments the air streamed against the ship as if sucked through a tunnel with a concentrated solid force of impact that seemed to lift her clean out of the water and keep her up for an instant with only a quiver running through her from end to end.
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It is a solid resort course, with ample fairways and little in the way of penal hazards, with water seriously in play on just one hole, but the tall thick native grasses are much tougher than the wispy rough of the British Isles, and while the greens are not crazily undulated, they have plenty of tricky pin positions.
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The gas is then fed into a stack of solid oxide fuel cells, where a chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen occurs, producing electricity, water vapor and a tiny amount of carbon dioxide.
Gravity pulled the water into New Orleans streets and kept it diving into basements and subbasements, stopping only when it reached the most solid rock at the lowest levels beneath the city.
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