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- noun the
interface between themixolimnion andmonimolimnion in ameromictic lake
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Examples
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"If we wanted to go under the glacier, we'd have to come up with some way to reballast the vehicle to go below this chemocline, because the density went up by almost 20 percent," said Bill Stone of Stone Aerospace, who heads the company that designed and built the robot.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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At about 17 meters (about 56 feet) below the surface, a chemocline, an increase salinity, occurs in Lake Bonney's water, and this saltier water is more buoyant than the overlying layer of fresher water.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Without the added weight, ENDURANCE "would bob on that chemocline like a cork."
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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At about 17 meters (about 56 feet) below the surface, a chemocline, an increase salinity, occurs in Lake Bonney's water, and this saltier water is more buoyant than the overlying layer of fresher water.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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"If we wanted to go under the glacier, we'd have to come up with some way to reballast the vehicle to go below this chemocline, because the density went up by almost 20 percent," said Bill Stone of Stone Aerospace, who heads the company that designed and built the robot.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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Without the added weight, ENDURANCE "would bob on that chemocline like a cork."
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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