Example sentences for: flotation

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  • fish; three or four inches this morning and more coming: a flotation medium rising in the

  • Weighed quantities of the samples (typically 4 grams) were analyzed using the quantitative zinc sulphate sedimentation flotation technique [ 17 16 ] to estimate parasite propagule densities per gram of faeces.

  • Toward that end, Gallager is working on an under-ice “zooplankton observatory” that would sit on the bottom of the ocean floor and continuously release a flotation package—“once an hour, for hopefully the next ten years”—outfitted with sonar and optical sensors up to the surface, then winch itself back down again.

  • What social historians of the future may find most notable about Leno's joke is not what it says about popular perceptions of Bill Clinton's sex life, but what it says about the language of air travel, and how its sui-generis vocabulary ("seat pocket," "ground personnel," "emergency flotation"), its stilted constructions ("We are now ready to pre-board those passengers who ..."

  • Watve (1992) compared different methods of fecal analysis and found that Zinc Sulfate flotation was more sensitive in detecting low densities of propagules although at high concentrations it tended to underestimate the numbers.


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