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In the lab the team fired extremely short pulses of infrared laser light into a chamber of water-saturated air at -24 °C.
Scientists Create Laser to Generate Clouds that Could Trigger Rain on Demand | Impact Lab 2010
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Her voice is a water-saturated whine, as if she actuallyhasreturned from the torrent just beyond the patio and has kept some of it with her.
Angels Carry the Sun excerpt: Chapter One, In the Woods 2010
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(AP) - The water-saturated stat sheet floated between LeBron James 'shins as he soaked his feet in the ice bath.
USATODAY.com 2007
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The bright vermilion color has slowly disappeared since excavation as the water-saturated glass dried out.
Archeologists Unearth Unique Roman Glass Bowl At Ancient London Cemetery | Impact Lab 2009
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The probability of slush avalanches (where water-saturated snow releases as a slide) is related to the porosity and permeability of the snow, which play a key role in snow stability.
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According to the authors, the species specific differences in oxygen consumption rates may explain the behavioral differences between the 2 earthworm species: A. gracilis, because it requires more oxygen at night than it does during the day, leaves water-saturated soil at night; while P. corethrurus, which has a lower overall oxygen requirement without a daily rhythm, can tolerate being immersed.
Why do earthworms come out of the soil after a rain? AYDIN 2008
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The two other forest types although water-saturated also support a diverse vegetative layer with plants and trees that are adapted to the watery conditions.
Napo moist forests 2008
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According to the authors, the species specific differences in oxygen consumption rates may explain the behavioral differences between the 2 earthworm species: A. gracilis, because it requires more oxygen at night than it does during the day, leaves water-saturated soil at night; while P. corethrurus, which has a lower overall oxygen requirement without a daily rhythm, can tolerate being immersed.
Archive 2008-06-01 AYDIN 2008
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The height of these nozzles is crucial: the mist must form above a narrow layer of stagnant, water-saturated air that usually keeps a lid on seawater, preventing its evaporation.
Sky High 2007
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Another outcome of this research was the discovery of plentiful Po radio-halos in metamorphic rocks.6 Such a finding was predicted, because hydrothermal fluids are generated in water-saturated sedimentary rocks as they become deeply buried, helping to transform them into regional metamorphic complexes.7-9 Thus it was argued that the same hydrothermal fluid transport model could likewise explain the formation of Po radiohalos in those regional metamorphic rocks where an adequate supply of U-decay products occurred.10
Ken Miller in Cleveland: WEBCAST ARCHIVE URLS - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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