air bubble


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Noun1.air bubble - a bubble of airair bubble - a bubble of air      
bubble - a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
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But as the last two days had been very warm, like an Indian summer, the ice was not now transparent, showing the dark green color of the water, and the bottom, but opaque and whitish or gray, and though twice as thick was hardly stronger than before, for the air bubbles had greatly expanded under this heat and run together, and lost their regularity; they were no longer one directly over another, but often like silvery coins poured from a bag, one overlapping another, or in thin flakes, as if occupying slight cleavages.
Air bubbles trickled slowly upward, showing that the breath had been expelled from their lungs, and after that the bubbles ceased to trickle upward.
Their study revealed that a ring-shaped air bubble forms as air moves through the bristles, enhancing the drag that slows each seed's descent to the ground.
Ltd., one of the pioneer and reputed manufacturers of air bubble packaging material has opened up a new facility at Kadi in Mehsana district of Gujarat.
The experimental method of air bubble concentration measurement
The wine red also appears on the Air bubble with a gold pop appearing on the tongue and heel tab.
An embolism is a blocked artery caused by a foreign body, usually a blood clot or an air bubble.
As the air bubble dispersion rises through the teeter bed, the bubbles become attached to the hydrophobic particles, reducing their effective density and increasing their buoyancy.
All cases were designed to be performed by the air bubble technique, but a viewing system was prepared to be used if needed during surgery.
INTROTEK[R] non-invasive air bubble sensors are widely employed in these applications to detect and prevent a significant amount of air from getting infused into the patients' veins or arteries.
Their results suggested that when the bones at a joint pull apart, an air bubble forms in the synovial fluid.