Infuses with water

Usage examples of hydrates.

And the lander contained sinks, stores of chemicals like hydrates of lithium nitrate, which, evaporating, could absorb much of theferocious incoming heat energy.

Trumball held out grudgingly for the idea that the lichen could somehow sense the hydrates, hut it was halt-hearted and soon drowned out in the excitement of trying to figure out how the organisms extracted usable water from the hydrates.

Some American scientists picked up on the work of our glorious scientists and discovered hydrates under the ocean.

Yaeger knew that if Max searched out every mention of methane hydrates recorded, he would drown in the digital deluge.

Getting hydrates to the surface to heat your home or run your SUV is another question.

The environment is extremely hostile in the deep water where hydrates are found, and the stuff simply fizzes when we bring it up.

Submarines would tow them to the shallows, where the hydrates would be safely broken down into fuel and water.

Jenny Dickens suggested that the methane was released from deposits of methane hydrates in permafrost and on the seabed.

Methane hydrates are a crystal lat­tice of water enclosing methane gas: they are created when bacteria in mud release the gas and it becomes trapped.

Turning to the sensor displays in his cabin's control panel, he saw that this lump of stone bore abundant hydrates, water locked chemically to the silicates of the rock.

The asteroid on which George stood was a dirty little chunk of rock, a dark carbonaceous 'roid, rich in hydrates and organic minerals.