A giant clam's siphon is used to draw in water to filter and consume passing plankton.

巨型蛤蚌的虹吸管是被用来以过吸水的方式过滤并吸食经过的浮游生物。

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There is, of course, a penalty to be paid for diverting some of the water that the boat is passing through into its turbines.

当然了，需要付出的代价要分流部分船航行用的水进入透平。

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Light is neither absorbed nor reflected by the objects, passing "like water flowing around a rock," according to the researchers.

据研究者称，光既没有被这种材料吸收也未被其折射，仅仅如“激水绕石”那样淌过。

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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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So what is to stop Wales, in the end, passing a law to say that all water gathered in Wales must stay in Wales - unless English water consumers stump up?

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To use that excess electricity (obviously, only excess when the wind is blowing just right, or the Sun shining) to electrolyse water by passing it through a fuel cell and then store the resultant hydrogen.

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