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    buoyancy


    1. There were more elevators in this one lobby than he had seen in Zhlindu, but like the elevators in Zhlindu, these work by buoyancy and weren't very fast


    2. Paquette took issue with some of the conclusions of the United States Coast Guard Marine Board and the Commandant in their concurring opinion that loss of buoyancy, massive flooding, and the wall of water that the vessel confronted were the only causes of the marine disaster


    3. Michael had the power to send her into a buoyancy of spirit marred


    4. upon which I was seated was a buoyancy seat, which


    5. The realization that Angela was human created a sense of buoyancy within her


    6. both as to diet and physical exercise; that you wil have the buoyancy and vitality


    7. An 8 L floater weighing 4 kg provides the same buoyancy as a 4 L floater of negligible mass


    8. When the subject finally achieves buoyancy equal to his or her weight (neither floats nor sinks), the amount of air in the bottle is determined by measuring how much water was poured into the collecting container, and the formula can be applied, where the variable v is taken to be the volume of air in the bottle


    9. Only the combined buoyancy of his diving suit and of his flotation vest made him resurface again


    10. The buoyancy of the bucket combined with its speed to crumple him to his

    11. cocks first, the hull will trap the air and give it enough buoyancy to stay afloat


    12. They got a third of the way down before their collective buoyancy pulled


    13. When he returned to the hotel after a seemingly endless journey during which neither person dared to speak, Feltus immediately, and with a buoyancy in his step accounted for by his successful outing, proceeded to his office where Lowell was waiting patiently in one of the large wingback chairs situated around the coffee table in the sitting area across from the desk


    14. Feltus immediately burst out of his chair with buoyancy he had not possessed in many years and, in the process, struck a match to provide enough light so that he could find his way to the switch for the chandelier by the door


    15. Max put more of his precious air into the bag, to achieve neutral buoyancy


    16. Closing his eyes for maximum concentration, legs around the line, Max slipped into his buoyancy jacket, joined the straps around his waist and inflated it


    17. The buoyancy of the cylinder was adjustable from outside by the divers as they negotiated it through the underwater tunnel from the chamber, and back under the hull of the cargo ship


    18. An idea occurred to him! If he could control the buoyancy of the cylinder, he could make it surface; at least someone would see it and investigate


    19. He looked for a chunk of metal he could use as an electrical bridge to divert current to the water pump and pump out the buoyancy tanks


    20. He felt her struggle to control herself when the buoyancy of the bag vanished

    21. The first indication of buoyancy was the slight rocking of the vessel, followed by a grating and shrieking noise as the sub moved over the shingle


    22. As the bubbles hit them, the buoyancy of the water vanished and the vessel dropped like a stone in a Jacuzzi


    23. “The huge column of fine bubbles provides no buoyancy and ships drop down the column as though it was a hole in the ocean; it is over in seconds, leaving no trace on the surface


    24. There was no real explosion, just the minor one with the plane; the actual cause was gas bubbles and loss of buoyancy


    25. Wickland jumped out of his seat and to his feet with the buoyancy of a devilish child filled with sugar


    26. She would never have the strength to pull him up and grab the life jacket again, for buoyancy


    27. It had become stranded on the seabed and to gain buoyancy, they were still pumping out the moon-pool


    28. He also had access to a mask, buoyancy control belt, and a regulator


    29. He cleared water from his facemask, released air from his buoyancy vest and sank beneath the waves


    30. He squeezed air from his buoyancy vest and sank below the waves

    31. into the pockets of their buoyancy vests and hiding them


    32. “The buoyancy of water keeps our breasts from sagging


    33. Within a few minutes the small feather seemed to lose its buoyancy


    34. In seconds, the entire car lay at the bottom, its buoyancy lost to the heavy load of water


    35. It will have no buoyancy so it will sink into the water as they lower it


    36. At that moment a timer in the submersible, that the trawler Triton had deployed, released a small flotation device that trailed a sensing wire as it rose toward the ocean surface due to buoyancy


    37. ---to feel the buoyancy of your skis, and the effects of momentum


    38. buoyancy of all objects in the atmosphere depends on the speed in motion of the object


    39. These empty tanks provided flotation and brought the boat close to neutral buoyancy, almost to the point where the flotation effect from the tanks equaled the weight of the boat itself


    40. The added buoyancy of the inflated raft swung the buoyancy equation toward the flotation side

    41. A liferaft inflated automatically and provided enough buoyancy to float the boat


    42. His was not one of those light natures that rise above adversity merely by virtue of their own buoyancy; it was in the fortitude of a high spirit that he was proof against it


    43. The rider's breezy hair and erect attitude, there was a suggestion of suddenly arrested motion, of strength, courage, and youthful buoyancy that contrasted sharply with the supine grace of the


    44. Its universality: its democratic equality and constancy to its nature in seeking its own level: its vastness in the ocean of Mercator's projection: its unplumbed profundity in the Sundam trench of the Pacific exceeding 8000 fathoms: the restlessness of its waves and surface particles visiting in turn all points of its seaboard: the independence of its units: the variability of states of sea: its hydrostatic quiescence in calm: its hydrokinetic turgidity in neap and spring tides: its subsidence after devastation: its sterility in the circumpolar icecaps, arctic and antarctic: its climatic and commercial significance: its preponderance of 3 to 1 over the dry land of the globe: its indisputable hegemony extending in square leagues over all the region below the subequatorial tropic of Capricorn: the multisecular stability of its primeval basin: its luteofulvous bed: its capacity to dissolve and hold in solution all soluble substances including millions of tons of the most precious metals: its slow erosions of peninsulas and islands, its persistent formation of homothetic islands, peninsulas and downwardtending promontories: its alluvial deposits: its weight and volume and density: its imperturbability in lagoons and highland tarns: its gradation of colours in the torrid and temperate and frigid zones: its vehicular ramifications in continental lakecontained streams and confluent oceanflowing rivers with their tributaries and transoceanic currents, gulfstream, north and south equatorial courses: its violence in seaquakes, waterspouts, Artesian wells, eruptions, torrents, eddies, freshets, spates, groundswells, watersheds, waterpartings, geysers, cataracts, whirlpools, maelstroms, inundations, deluges, cloudbursts: its vast circumterrestrial ahorizontal curve: its secrecy in springs and latent humidity, revealed by rhabdomantic or hygrometric instruments and exemplified by the well by the hole in the wall at Ashtown gate, saturation of air, distillation of dew: the simplicity of its composition, two constituent parts of hydrogen with one constituent part of oxygen: its healing virtues: its buoyancy in the waters of the Dead Sea: its persevering penetrativeness in runnels, gullies, inadequate dams, leaks on


    45. Then she had been pale and sad but there had been a buoyancy about her


    46. Now that buoyancy had gone, as if the surrender had taken all hope from her


    47. Up this road from the precincts of the city two persons were walking rapidly, as if unconscious of the trying ascent—unconscious through preoccupation and not through buoyancy


    48. The turn off the lows following the undercut should be swift, as this confirms the stock’s ability to recover quickly and with some authority, hence giving the SO+3 a look of extreme buoyancy in the stock as it immediately rises back to the surface—the top of the base


    49. A sub-sea platform is then installed and 15 sponsons are welded to the port side, for buoyancy


    50. They dispersed about the room, reminding me, by the lightness and buoyancy of their movements, of a flock of white plumy birds











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    Synonyms for "buoyancy"

    buoyancy irrepressibility airiness perkiness gaiety happiness cheerfulness cheer light-heartedness flotation levity

    "buoyancy" definitions

    cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface


    the property of something weightless and insubstantial


    the tendency to float in water or other liquid


    irrepressible liveliness and good spirit