ice-like

Sadia Rai, a ‘dogmatic painter’ displayed a canvas, mostly painted in black, and on the focal point where a female figure, painted in vivid red paint was shown encaged in a white ice-like cube.

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This includes methane clathrates—gas on the ocean floor in solid, ice-like form—which may or may not be accessible as fuel someday.

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Wednesday, gas rose through the vent that carries warm water down to prevent ice-like crystals from forming, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said.

Oil Cap Removed: Oil Spill Now Gushing Unchecked 2010

BP officials are trying to capture as much oil as possible without creating too much pressure or allowing the buildup of ice-like hydrates, which form when water and natural gas combine under high pressures and low temperatures.

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But gas hydrates ice-like solids that form when methane gas combines with water under certain conditions clogged the opening at the top of the dome, preventing oil from being funneled to the surface, said Doug Suttles, BP's chief operating officer, on a media conference call.

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Seawater got inside the dome and combined with leaking natural gas to form ice-like crystals called hydrates that clogged up the device.

BP Set to Try Risky Move to Contain Flow 2010

Hydrates, which are ice-like crystals that form when frigid seawater combines with natural-gas molecules, derailed a separate containment effort that BP attempted last month.

BP Collected 6,077 Barrels Friday at Well 2010

Although Proegler did not provide an explanation as to why the insertion tube would be used first, one benefit over the “top hat” is that it should allow oil to be contained before it comes in contact with water, thereby preventing the formation of methane hydrate, an ice-like solid of methane and water that clogged up the first containment dome.

BP Abandons "Top Hat"—For Now 2010

BP officials are trying to capture as much oil as possible without creating too much pressure or allowing the buildup of ice-like hydrates, which form when water and natural gas combine under high pressures and low temperatures.

Gulf Oil Spill: Cap Placed Over Leak Collecting Only Fraction Of The Oil 2010

The box failed after ice-like crystals clogged it, while the tube was removed to make way for the top kill after it sucked up more than 900,000 gallons of oil.

BP Says So Far, Gulf Well Plug Isn't Working 2010