Dorniers too, he says, were made of aluminium, which corrodes badly in sea water.
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This meant replacing the 14-pound-per-gallon mud that was in the wellbore with 8.5-pound-per-gallon sea water.
In sea water, this forms carbonic acid which adds to ocean acidification, with consequent problems for biodiversity.
In addition, it will take about 10 days to fill the container with sea water, he said.
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Instead of sea water, it will inject water from which most of the salt has been removed.
When too much of this gas dissolves in sea water, corals build skeletons only with the greatest difficulty.
There is nothing like lying in the hot springs and bracing for a surge of cold sea water.
The sea water pump was shut down presumably to check the well stability.
To supplement its bounty from above, it takes the salt out of sea water and imports supplies from Malaysia.
Sea water is being pumped into the reactors by special high pressure fire extinguisher hoses to prevent a nuclear meltdown.
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The all-pervasive sea water still left its mark, seeping into the frames and discoloring them with salt stains and algae.
The flood victims died on 31 January when sea water breached the coastal defences causing widespread damage along England's east coast.
Until the 1940s, for example, ships typically measured the sea's temperature by dunking a thermometer into a bucket of sea water.
In Lagos, there is sea water everywhere - but little to drink.
He talked about the extensive interdisciplinary studies, carried out by Cuban scientific institutions, on the impact of the rising sea water level.
Sea water is pumped into the oil-bearing rocks deep below the seabed.
He just grabbed a lamppost and he found himself a flow of sea water up to his waist pushing him with maximum pressure.
The region has the highest water bills in the UK, partly because of the cost of keeping the coastal region's sea water clean.
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As the ice thins, more solar radiation can enter the ocean and warm the sea water, which will cause icecaps to melt more quickly.
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Use the electricity generated to desalinate and de-ionize sea water. 3.
Bolton said experts had been surprised investigators were able to recover 100 percent of the data from the recorders, despite their lengthy immersion in sea water.
Management say the factory cannot compete with Israeli and Jordanian businesses, which can extract bromine more cheaply from sea water than can be done on Anglesey.
But unlike other alternative energy sources, such as sun or wind power, there's nothing fickle about the availability of the key raw ingredients--fresh water and sea water.
The Great Lakes site has a long industrial history, previously being used to produce bromine from sea water by the company Associated Octel and then Great Lakes Chemicals.
Salicornia produces a high quality vegetable oil on sea water.
New sea bed is constantly being created in the middles of the oceans - flowing out as hot lava, and rapidly cooling on contact with cold deep sea water.
Sea water will be pumped in via underground tunnels 2-3km (1.2 to 1.8 miles) in length to cool the two nuclear reactors and then back to the Bristol Channel.
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Chagrined, I swam back to the boat for a spear, while the rest of the guys practiced the art of deep diving without gulping a mouthful of sea water.
The hepatitis A virus can survive in sea water for a number of weeks - meaning these people could contract the disease if the local sea water has been contaminated.
The ship generates and distributes its own power, provides and maintains sanitation, heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, and makes several hundred thousand gallons of water every day from sea water.
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