If notched for the battens, they would require more work, be weakened and limber holes would have to be bored so that bilge water could flow through.

If your pool is located on or near sloping ground, it may have natural drainage which is certainly more desirable than to be faced with the annual expense and labor of first pumping out the water and then scooping out all the debris.

If the site is on a reservoir, the level of the water at various seasons as it affects recreation should be studied.

If you are considering a part-time farm where the water must be provided by a well, find out if there is a good well on the farm or the probable cost of having one drilled.

`` If it ain't an idea '', she said, `` how comes it you can drink beer but not water ''??

If the boat floats, the mass of the boat ( plus contents ) as a whole divided by the volume below the waterline is equal to the density of water ( 1 kg / l ).

Hood replied that he would take careful soundings as he advanced to test the depth of the water, and that " If you will allow the honour of leading you into battle, I will keep the lead going.

If the cord is twisted up tightly on itself and then the bucket is released, it begins to spin rapidly, not only with respect to the experimenter, but also in relation to the water it contains.

If sugars are heated so that all water of crystallisation is driven off, then caramelization starts, with the sugar undergoing thermal decomposition with the formation of carbon, and other breakdown products producing caramel.

If hypertonic therapy continues or is too rapid, the extracellular tonicity will continue to drive water out of the brain's cells, leading to cellular dysfunction and the condition of central pontine myelinolysis.

If the average density ( including any air below the waterline ) of an object is less than water it will float in water and if it is more than water's it will sink in water.

If an explosive molecule contains just enough oxygen to convert all of its carbon to carbon dioxide, all of its hydrogen to water, and all of its metal to metal oxide with no excess, the molecule is said to have a zero oxygen balance.

If water is evaporated too quickly, the membrane dries, resistance across it increases, and eventually it will crack, creating a gas " short circuit " where hydrogen and oxygen combine directly, generating heat that will damage the fuel cell.

If the water is evaporated too slowly, the electrodes will flood, preventing the reactants from reaching the catalyst and stopping the reaction.

If the pane is not a good insulator ( such as a single pane window ), water vapour condenses on the glass forming patterns.

If the indoor air is very humid, rather than moderately so, water will first condense in small droplets and then freeze into clear ice.

If the pores are filled with water, then the water must be squeezed out of the pores to allow volumetric compression of the soil ; this process is called consolidation.

If a saline solution is used instead of water, a purer protein is obtained, with certain harmless impurities going into solution with the starch.

If gelatin is put into contact with cold water, some of the material dissolves, but not all.

If too much water and not enough air surrounds the plants roots, it is possible to gradually lower the medium's water-retention capability by mixing in increasing quantities of perlite.

If all water flow has stopped, the loaded waste valve reopens against the now static head, which allows the process to begin again.

If the child is thrown into a passive role as a student, absorbing information, the result is a waste of the child ’ s education.

If the surface has any transparent or translucent properties, it refracts a portion of the light beam into itself in a different direction while absorbing some ( or all ) of the spectrum ( and possibly altering the color ).

If a sound absorbing sheet is slid in between the prongs of a vibrating fork, reducing the waves reaching the ear from one prong, the volume heard will actually increase, due to a reduction of this cancellation.

If the resistance of the absorbing element depends on the electron temperature, then the resistance can be used as a thermometer of the electron system.

If the absorbing element does not have a temperature-dependent resistance, as is typical of normal ( non-superconducting ) metals at very low temperature, then an attached resistive thermometer can be used to measure the electron temperature.

If the surface has any transparent or translucent properties, it refracts a portion of the light beam into itself in a different direction while absorbing some ( or all ) of the spectrum ( and possibly altering the color ).

If the power supply system is not " receptive ", i. e. incapable of absorbing the current, the system will default to rheostatic mode in order to provide the braking effect.

If the air is not too humid, the water evaporates, absorbing heat from the air, allowing the misting fan to also work as an air cooler.

If a phase shifter such as a refractive material is available, one can increase the collected light ( or other wave ) by replacing the absorbing rings with half wave length phase delays.

If this means manganese dioxide, then absorbing carbon dioxide would not make it release as much oxygen as the diver consumed to make the carbon dioxide.

If the source were partially covered by an ideal absorbing hemisphere, that system would radiate half as much luminous flux — only 2π lumens.

If he doesn't use the energy in the aforementioned manner he is forced to expend it in a discharge, most notably the time he started another Big Bang during Zero Hour ( although he only gained the energy necessary to do this thanks to other heroes such as Green Lantern, the Ray and Waverider absorbing and converting Parallax's energy into something that he could then process ).

If we have a k + 1 state process, where the first k states are transient and the state k + 1 is an absorbing state, then the distribution of time from the start of the process until the absorbing state is reached is phase-type distributed.

: If the theory corresponds to the facts, radiation conveys inertia between the emitting and absorbing bodies.

" Moses Hadas, an earlier translator, takes a slightly different view: " If An Ephesian Tale is an absorbing tale of love and improbable adventure, it is also a tract to prove that Diana of the Ephesians ( who was equated with Isis ) cares for her loyal devotees.

If film grains are uniformly distributed ( equal number per area ), and if each grain has an equal and independent probability of developing to a dark silver grain after absorbing photons, then the number of such dark grains in an area will be random with a binomial distribution ; in areas where the probability is low ; this distribution will be close to the classic Poisson distribution of shot noise.

If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.

If she, Pamela, were being held responsible for his crimes, then hers must be the final act of expiation.

I showed her the shower and tub, and she said, smiling, `` If you really don't mind, I think I'll get clean in the shower, then soak for a few minutes in your tub.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

`` If Blue Throat has his way he'll keep us all cooped up in here for days '', he said.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.

If living Jews were unavailable for study, the Bible was at hand.

If he had been `` liquidated '' in some way, he would have become a martyr, a rallying point for people who shared his ideas.

If we examine the three types of change from the point of view of their internal structure we find an additional profound difference between the third and the first two, one that accounts for the notable difference between the responses they evoke.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

If we grasp this opportunity to build an age of productive partnership between the less fortunate nations and those that have already achieved a high state of economic advancement, we will make brighter the outlook for a world order based upon security and freedom.

`` If you become a Baptist, I will not '', Ann informed her husband, but sweeping her threat aside Adoniram continued to search for an answer to the personal dilemma in which he found himself.

Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.

If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

If only for this modest masterpiece of military history, Blenheim is likely to be read and reread long after newer interpretations have perhaps altered our picture of the Marlborough wars.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

If Gorton wanted peace and quiet for his complicated meditations this is where he should have had it.

If she wanted to borrow any sum of money in expecting the arrangements of Congress, it would not become a stranger, unknown to her, to offer himself for that purpose.

If the hardships of the winter at Valley Forge were trying for healthy men, they were, of course, much more so for those not in good health.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.