air-bubbles

And weird chemical-pollution spikes in the atmosphere - trapped in air-bubbles in the Arctic ice (which are coming in for a LOT of scrutiny at the moment).

INTERVIEW: Michael Hanlon, Author of Eternity, Our Next Billion Years 2009

When he got there, there had been a mass of escaping air-bubbles coming to the surface, and there was a great deal of oil upon the water.

In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs 2010

The bowl was filled to the brim with golden-yellow dough, full of air-bubbles, and showing every sign that he had got it to rise.

The South Pole~ A Day at Framheim 2009

The white phlegm, though dangerous when detained within by reason of the air-bubbles, yet if it can communicate with the outside air, is less severe, and only discolours the body, generating leprous eruptions and similar diseases.

Timaeus 2006

One sees this same instinct magnificently displayed in every other phase of nature — in the drifting of sea-wood to the Sargasso Sea, in the geometric interrelation of air-bubbles on the surface of still water, in the marvelous unreasoned architecture of so many insects and atomic forms which make up the substance and the texture of this world.

The Financier 2004

Babbitt lazily watched it; noted that along the silhouette of his legs against the radiance on the bottom of the tub, the shadows of the air-bubbles clinging to the hairs were reproduced as strange jungle mosses.

Babbit 2004

The bowl was filled to the brim with golden-yellow dough, full of air-bubbles, and showing every sign that he had got it to rise.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

The waves were eddying like a whirlpool around the submerged vessel, and numbers of enormous air-bubbles were rising to the surface of the water.

The Survivors of the Chancellor 2003

But just awake, his judgment still cloudy with sleep, he would start, did he find this friend at his lips, to suck with tremendous energy, believing it to be the mouthpiece of his adored bottle; and then, instead of the soft thick flow of milk, empty air-bubbles would drive down his little gullet. —

Two Tales of Old Strasbourg 2003

Clemens thought the “damned human race” was almost to be redeemed by a process of founding brass without air-bubbles in it.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003