He is also studying the process of rarefaction, which is when capillaries and vessels start losing their density. From Wordnik.com. [The Charleston Gazette -] Reference
Instead, they used a theoretical approach called rarefaction for gene discovery, a process developed for ecological surveys to determine the abundance of a species in an ecosystem. From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
When it comes to estimating how many species are yet to be discovered, Webb says scientists use a technique called "rarefaction": "Imagine a garden pond. From Wordnik.com. [How did they count all the fish in the sea?] Reference
Boyle, upon the nature and rarefaction of the air. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country] Reference
An area of rarefaction, of low pressure, is formed. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
Page 187, Volume 3 densation and rarefaction of the all-embracing pneuma. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Grosz talks about literature as a rarefaction of sensation, either as pleasure or pain. From Wordnik.com. [Trauma] Reference
I should certainly have run distracted, if the rarefaction of my blood, occasioned by that. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition of Humphry Clinker] Reference
The rarefaction of the atmosphere produced that painful oppression known by the name of PUNA. From Wordnik.com. [In Search of the Castaways] Reference
Now what is more contrary to kindling than refrigeration, or to rarefaction than condensation?. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
According to the wave theory, a condensation and rarefaction are necessary to constitute a sound wave. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887] Reference
Anaximenes, for example, explains the different states of matter in terms of rarefaction and condensation. From Wordnik.com. [CAUSATION] Reference
One does NOT need air to have sound, only some medium in which compression/rarefaction waves can propagate. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
That electricity is nothing more than the effects of the condensation and rarefaction of this medium by force. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
There can be no denying the purification and rarefaction of the human scene that was achieved during their sway. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
We threw over part of our ballast, and mounted up till the cold and the rarefaction of the air became very troublesome. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Balloon Ascents] Reference
On the other hand, it was very cold, and I was conscious of that peculiar nausea which goes with rarefaction of the air. From Wordnik.com. [The Horror of the Heights]
This is explained by the great rarefaction prevailing at these heights, which retards the recombination of the ions of the air. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Physics 1947 - Presentation Speech] Reference
Chrysippus, following Heraclitus, taught that the elements passed into one another by a process of condensation and rarefaction. From Wordnik.com. [Guide to Stoicism] Reference
They went outside, into the polluted rarefaction of the atmosphere, and Stile donned his Phaze clothing, which Sheen had brought. From Wordnik.com. [Split Infinity]
Plutarch says that condensation and rarefaction are connected with cooling and heating, and he gives the example of breath (13B1). From Wordnik.com. [Presocratic Philosophy] Reference
The weight of the atmosphere is not only affected by rarefaction, but by currents of air, which give it a sudden density or rarity. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860] Reference
It is the areas of compression and rarefaction that move, and it is the periodic nature of these areas that give them the name "waves.". From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
He calls her feminine because he has no better word: the feminine, a higher rarefaction of the female, to the point of becoming spirit. From Wordnik.com. [From 'Summertime': 'Undated Fragments'] Reference
My most careful measurements made with an emulsion the rarefaction of which doubled with each rise of 6 microns, gave a value for N of 68 X. From Wordnik.com. [Jean Baptiste Perrin - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Likewise, in a famous passage, Buridan is driven by his own experience to reject Ockham's explanation of condensation and rarefaction as kinds of locomotion. From Wordnik.com. [John Buridan] Reference
The air over them, subjected by the heat to constant rarefaction, must rise, must overflow above, and must force the colder air from the surrounding regions in below. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference
The pulse of condensation and rarefaction which travels the length of the wire is called a wave, although it bears little or no resemblance to the familiar water wave. From Wordnik.com. [General Science] Reference
Again, all affections have their origin in condensation and rarefaction: thus heavy and light, soft and hard, hot and cold, are considered to be forms of density and rarity. From Wordnik.com. [Physics] Reference
This rarefaction on the upper side will render more effective the pressure of the compressed air again admitted through the engine supply port S on the underside of division D. From Wordnik.com. [The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments] Reference
From its location, character and the few tiny foci of bone rarefaction in the spine, we concluded that this tumor is a metastatic deposit rather than a primary tumor, 'Selim said. From Wordnik.com. [Hatshepsut Found; Thutmose I Lost] Reference
The outermost parts of this extension of matter were more extended and rarefied than the innermost parts, which remained capable of further rarefaction when the outermost did not. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Grosseteste] Reference
H. maintains, in opposition to Sir H.mphry Davy, that the Davy lamp acts by its heat and rarefaction, and not from Sir H. Davy's theory, that flame is cooled by a wire-gauze covering. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 329, August 30, 1828] Reference
The molecules in a sound wave's rarefaction are in the same phase. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
When the compression of one wave fills in the rarefaction of another, the volume is lowered. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
What we think of as sound is actually a compression and rarefaction (thinning) of a medium of some sort, whether it's a solid, liquid or gas. From Wordnik.com. [TrekMovie.com] Reference
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