Usage examples of "flotan" in Spanish with translation to English

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Partículas de polvo flotan en la atmósfera. Particles of dust float in the atmosphere.
La madera flota en el agua. Wood floats in water.
Un globo flotaba en el aire. A balloon was floating in the air.
Me encanta flotar en el agua. I love to float on the water.
Una nube flotó por el cielo. A cloud floated across the sky.
Los pétalos están flotando en el agua. The petals are floating on the water.
Un astronauta puede flotar en el espacio. An astronaut can float in space.
Tom flotó río abajo en una balsa. Tom floated down the river on a raft.
La madera flota, pero el hierro se hunde. Wood floats, but iron sinks.
Una nube blanca flota en el cielo azul. A white cloud is floating in the blue sky.
Los pétalos flotaban en la superficie del agua. The petals floated on the surface of the water.
¿No sabías que el aceite flota sobre el agua? Didn't you know that oil floats on water?
Miles de peces muertos fueron encontrados flotando en el lago. Thousands of dead fish have been found floating in the lake.
La sustancia es lo suficientemente ligera para flotar en el agua. The substance is light enough to float on the water.
Al astronauta se le escurrió la llave y no pudo hace nada más que mirar como se iba alejando flotando. The astronaut lost his grip on the wrench and all he could do was watch in dismay as it floated serenely away.
Si dejas una moneda de un yen flotando en el agua y le acercas lentamente un imán, entonces la moneda se acercará al imán. If you float a one yen coin on water and move a magnet slowly towards it then the coin will approach the magnet.
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