Placing it in a bag with moisture-absorbing desiccate packets from vitamin bottles worked, but only for a few moments.
Meteorologists say the dry conditions in the Midwest started with a lack of snow, which usually replenishes soil with moisture.
With more moisture evaporating from the oceans and falling over the land as rain, global soil moisture has been improving for more than a century.
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Fog is much more prevalent in Italy, where the major metros of Milan and Rome get socked in 300 days a year thanks to pollution that coagulates with air moisture from flooded rice fields.
That does not sound like much but it does mean that extreme rain storms may bring more rain than before - with more moisture in the air, what goes up must come down, and the odds are worse.
This ceramic substrate will not react with oxygen or moisture and is not damaged by temperatures that would significantly warp a conventional plastic optical disc.
With all the moisture sucked out, the bread lasts for months.
Fire ants, he explained, could build stable tunnels in sand or soil with almost no moisture to bind it together, so learning from them might enable designers to build and programme robots that solve these same engineering problems.
Despite your device's resistance qualities, you should avoid exposing it to environments with excessive dust or moisture.
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They spiked droplets of human mucus with live flu virus, and then exposed it to air with varying levels of moisture.
ClearPad 3400's high SNR and advanced algorithms also enable accurate multitouch performance under a wide range of scenarios, such as in the presence of moisture or with gloved fingers.
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All are confronted with either a scarcity of moisture in key regions, or an inability to contain the water that sometimes pours and deliver it in potable form to millions for daily life.
"If we get one more storm like this with widespread 2 inches of moisture, we will continue to chip away at the drought, but to claim the drought is over or ending is way too premature, " Umscheid said.
"It was tough conditions out there, especially early on with the new ball and the moisture in the pitch, but I have played in a few matches at the Waca where first-innings innings totals have been in the mid-200s so I don't think we are out of it altogether, " said the Western Australia player.
Northerly situated Scandinavia, which gets some of its currents from the Arctic Circle, is home to a lot of snow and cold, with Helsinki, Finland, facing the moisture of the Baltic Sea in addition to low temperature, rating tops in both categories.
In China, they use artillery shells, rockets and airplanes to spray existing cloud systems with silver iodide, a compound that triggers moisture in the clouds to form ice crystals, which then fall to earth as snow or rain.
John Kestner and David Carr created Twine, a 2.5 inch-square device with on-board temperature and vibration sensors, as well as an expansion connector for other sensors, such as moisture sensors and magnetic switches, all tightly integrated through WiFi with a cloud-based service.
It combines a dehumidifier with a water purifier, to essentially suck the moisture from the air and, instead of discarding it as one normally would, purify it to make it potable.
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Upon request, participating hotels provide each guest with complimentary loaner workout gear in a mesh bag: moisture-wicking shirts and shorts to socks and - hooray!
Of course, a device of that size also poses a number of problems, but Insound appears to have all those sorted out, with it employing a special "spongy material" that allows moisture to escape and prevent infection, and a magnet to actually remove the device from the ear.
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Scrape the bottom of the pan often with your spatula, and decrease the heat gradually as more and more moisture cooks out of the jam.
And, at the end of the day their Bliss Spa provided me with a fantastic facial to refresh my skin that was thirsty for some moisture from all the sun and sand in this city.
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It's also hypoallergenic, wicks away moisture and can degrade in only a few months if composted professionally with high temperatures and liquids.
Usually, moisture-laden winds blow across the state and drench it daily with rain.
He's currently experimenting with aging teas in Pinot Noir and whiskey barrels: The teas absorb the moisture from the barrels and give off the alcohol's scent.
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This is being prepared with data from every rainfall station across the country, together with readings from the UK's 1300 river gauges, plus information about soil moisture.
After years of fishing in tropical locales and sweating through his shirts, Chouinard came up with the idea for Patagonia's Puckerware fabric, introduced in 1998, which wicks moisture from the skin.
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