The cooking conserves a maximum of the vitamin C content of vegetables by methods which use very little water and cook in the shortest time possible.

About two-thirds of the Burgess Shale organisms lived by feeding on the organic content in the muddy sea floor, while almost a third filtered out fine particles from the water column.

Eisbock is a traditional specialty beer of the Kulmbach district of Germany that is made by partially freezing a doppelbock and removing the water ice to concentrate the flavour and alcohol content, which ranges from 9 % to 13 % by volume.

Such an effect is specifically searched for with tailor-made superplasticizers developed to increase the workability of concrete and to reduce its water content.

Depending on the water content which varies during the menstrual cycle the mucus functions as a barrier or a transport medium to spermatozoa.

For several days around the time of ovulation, " fertile " types of mucus are produced ; they have a higher water content, and are less acidic and higher in electrolytes.

The four properties are cohesion ( water ), solidity or inertia ( earth ), expansion or vibration ( air ) and heat or energy content ( fire ).

Hydraulic cements ( e. g., Portland cement ) harden because of hydration, chemical reactions that occur independently of the mixture's water content ; they can harden even underwater or when constantly exposed to wet weather.

Because fly ash addition allows a lower concrete water content, early strength can also be maintained.

He was assisted in removing the water content from the milk to prevent mildewing by a neighbour, a baby food manufacturer named Henri Nestlé.

Despite the water content in all beverages, water itself is not usually considered a beverage.

Deforestation reduces the content of water in the soil and groundwater as well as atmospheric moisture.

The mineral content of the Dead Sea is very different from that of ocean water.

The mineral content of the water, the very low content of pollens and other allergens in the atmosphere, the reduced ultraviolet component of solar radiation, and the higher atmospheric pressure at this great depth each have specific health effects.

The higher the water content of a soil, the lower the oxygen content and consequently, the lower the rate of decomposition.

Thick-cut, or beefsteak, British chips are occasionally made from unpeeled potatoes to enhance their flavor and nutritional value and are not necessarily served as crisp as the European French fry due to their relatively high water content.

Atterberg limits tests, water content measurements, and grain size analysis, for example, may be performed on disturbed samples obtained from thick walled soil samplers.

As the lakes in the Eastern Rift have no outlet to the sea and tend to be shallow, they have a high mineral content as the evaporation of water leaves the salts behind.

Gluten content has been implicated as a factor in the staling of bread, possibly because it binds water through hydration.

The maximum alcohol content is somewhere between 19-20 fl oz ( 562-591 mL ) of vodka mixed with a 3 oz ( 85 g ) package of gelatin powder dissolved in 4 fl oz ( 118 mL ) of boiling water ; the resulting solution has about 30 % alcohol by volume.

In mammals, the protein makes up about 97 % of the red blood cells ' dry content, and around 35 % of the total content ( including water ).

from downstream, where the water level is much lower, it is a high, elaborately facaded pavilion.

Here, on the hottest day, it is cool beneath the stone and fresh from the water flowing in the sluices at the bottom of the vaults.

In a stream that turns a mill-wheel there is a lot of water ; ;

the mill-pond is quiet, its surface dark and shadowed, and there does not seem to be much water in it.

It is covered ( partly ) with water, air is atop of that.

There is a mediocre restaurant at Sounion and I fed a thin little Grecian cat and gave it two saucers of water -- there was no milk -- which it lapped up as though it were nectar.

In view of the increasing shortage of usable surface and ground water in many parts of the Nation and the importance of finding new sources of supply to meet its present and future water needs, it is the policy of the Congress to provide for the development of practicable low-cost means for the large-scale production of water of a quality suitable for municipal, industrial, agricultural, and other beneficial consumptive uses from saline water, and for studies and research related thereto.

This shelter could be built in regions where water or rock is close to the surface, making it impractical to build an underground shelter.

These are particularly suitable for regions where water or rock is close to the surface.

It is estimated that about 542,250 miles of forest development roads, and 80,000 miles of trails, constitute the system that will eventually be needed to obtain the maximum practicable yield and use of the wood, water, forage, and wildlife and recreation resources of the National Forests on a continuing basis.

The sight of sleek inboards, outboards, and sailboats being wheeled smartly along highways many miles from any water is commonplace.

Ignorance of the law is no better excuse on the water than it is on land ; ;

Currently, marina is used to indicate a municipal or commercially operated facility where a pleasure boat may dock and find some or all of the following available: gasoline, fresh water, electricity, telephone service, ice, repair facilities, restaurants, sleeping accommodations, a general store, and a grocery store.

This is possible with water and other liquids that have a high surface tension.

There is still water in it.

The sink in the hinged panel above the bunk drains into the head and a five-gallon water tank is mounted on the bulkhead above the sink.

Of course, when your 6-inch torrent of water is released, it may cause a lot of comment as it passes through or by neighboring properties.

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.

She helped him with the dishes, then he brought more water in from the spring before it got dark.

The water in Thor's big swimming pool had been covered with a blanket of thick, foamy soapsuds -- fashioned, of course, from zing -- Joyce had dived from the board into the pool, then swirled and cavorted in her luxurious `` bath '' while cameras rolled.

The man shoved him into the water, then ran past the cabana.

And then came the water -- not rain, but solid sheets that sluiced down like water slopping from a bucket.

For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water begin their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then turning south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.

and then I was adding my own voice to the crescendo of sound, hurling more vile language than I ever thought I knew, sobbing and shouting, and aware that if I had passed water before, it was not enough, for my pants were soaking wet.

And put water on to boil and then searched through the icebox.

Eugene put a spoonful of powdered coffee into his cup and then filled it with hot water.

Harold put a teaspoonful of powdered coffee in his cup and filled it with hot water, and then, stirring, he sat back in his chair.

Our readers are familiar with the principles of sonar where sound waves are sent out in water and the echoes then indicate submerged objects.

Green lumber was all very well back in the days of wet plaster, when the framing lumber was bound to swell and then shrink as tons of water dried out the gypsum.

The mixture was then extracted with alkali and with water following which the carbon tetrachloride was distilled on a Vigreux column, a 25% center cut being retained which was then degassed under vacuum in the presence of Af.

Another common cure was to soak the feet five or ten minutes in warm water, then to apply a solution of equal parts of soda and common brown soap on a kid bandage overnight.

I closed the last bag and stood all three at the door for the bellboy to pick up, then went to the bathroom for a drink of water.

Pulling off her face mask, she carefully placed the spear gun across the stern, then lifted her wet hair from her back and squeezed out the water.

This is not only a compliment to Mijbil, of whom there are a fine series of photographs and drawings in the book, but to the author who has catalogued the saga of a frightened otter cub's journey by plane from Iraq to London, then by train ( where he lay curled in the wash basin playing with the water tap ) to Camusfearna, with affectionate detail.

He snuck up on the ham like Maggie, gumming it with soft, stumpy teeth, then panting with thirst, lapping up the water in the lagoon, swelling up like a balloon, staggering home to be sick, while his mother said, `` That does it.

I had turned at the corner of the field and I had to look back to raise the plow and then to drop it again into the earth, and I was thinking of the boy and the water anyway, and when I looked again down the furrow, the snake was there.

alt = Map displaying a looping line with arrows indicating that water flows eastward in the far Southern ocean, angling north east of Australia, turning sough after passing Alaska, then crossing the mid-Pacific to flow north of Australia, continuing west below Africa, then turning northwest until reaching eastern Canada, then angling east to southern Europe, then finally turning south just below Greenland and flowing down the Americas ' eastern coast, and resuming its flow eastward to complete the circle