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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