Sentences with phrase «about a million degrees»

Within its less - than -2-minute lifetime, a jet's temperature soars, some parts reaching corona - like temperatures of about a million degrees.

He explained: «We set the dyneins running along their tracks and then we froze them in «mid-stride» by cooling them at about a million degrees a second, fast enough to prevent the water from forming ice crystals as it solidified.

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Eduventures says about one million students are enrolled in degree - granting online programs this year at both traditional schools and at for - profit programs such as the University of Phoenix.

Multi million degree braided loops changes it all... very interesting times we're in... God knew all about it.

During the Eocene, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was more than 560 parts per million, at least twice preindustrial levels, and the epoch kicked off with a global average temperature more than 8 degrees Celsius — about 14 degrees Fahrenheit — warmer than today, gradually cooling over the next 22 million years.

It would need about 200 exabytes (about 200 million terabytes) of data to heat a gram of water by just a single degree Celsius — an overwhelming demand for data storage.

Temperatures in the lower mantle the reach around 3,000 - 3,500 degrees Celsius and the barometer reads about 125 gigapascals, about one and a quarter million times atmospheric pressure.

Scientists hope that the probe will help solve some crucial mysteries about the sun: How can the corona (the outer layer of the sun's atmosphere) be millions of degrees hotter than the solar surface?

Black holes that arise from dying stars typically seem to have about 10 times the mass of the sun and heat their surrounding gas to tens of millions of degrees.

Fusion energy occurs when light atomic nuclei are combined using high pressure and extremely high temperatures of about 150 million degrees Celsius.

Working out of a lab in WSU's Webster Hall, physicist Peter Engels and his colleagues cooled about one million atoms of rubidium to 100 billionths of a degree above absolute zero.

In 2012, students in China earned about 23 percent of the world's 6 million first university degrees in S&E.

The last time researchers believe the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere reached 400 ppm — between 3 and 5 million years ago during the Pliocene — Earth was about 3.5 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit warmer (2 to 5 degrees Celsius) than it is today.

About 3.6 million years ago, the far north was blanketed in boreal forests, and summers were 8 degrees Celsius warmer than they are today, geologists report May 9 in Science.

About 17 percent (36 million) of U.S. adults report some degree of hearing loss, according to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders in Bethesda, Md..

I read that the sun's surface temperature is about 6,000 degrees Celsius but that the corona — the sun's atmosphere — is much hotter, millions of degrees.

A privately funded company called Tri Alpha Energy has built a machine that forms a ball of superheated gas — at about 10 million degrees Celsius — and holds it steady for 5 milliseconds without decaying away.

Three million years ago, Earth was several degrees warmer than it is today — about the same global temperature that we may see by the year 2100.

Coronal temperatures were measured at about 2 million degrees Celsius, not billion.

Scientists believe the probe will help solve several mysteries about our closest star, most notably: why the corona surrounding it at 1.8 million degrees F (one million degrees C) is hotter than the solar surface, which is still a toasty 10,800 degrees F (6,000 degrees C).

False colors trace different gas temperatures: reds are relatively cool (about 60,000 degrees); blues and greens are hotter (at least one million degrees).

Using a facility maintained by the Geophysical Laboratory at the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory, the team found the new form to be stable from about 2.2 million times normal atmospheric pressure and about 80 degrees Fahrenheit to at least 3.4 million times atmospheric pressure and about -100 degrees Fahrenheit.

The newfound world circles its star at about 60 million kilometers, leaving it with a relatively mild temperature that Deeg's group estimates to be between minus 20 degrees Celsius and 150 degrees C, depending on its atmospheric makeup.

A forest that grew between 5 and 10 degrees from the South Pole about 260 million years ago is challenging ideas about the climate in the Permian period.

The band of hydrogen gas, called the «Magellanic Stream», extends almost 90 degrees across the sky away from the Magellanic Clouds and may be the result of an encounter they experienced with the Milky Way about 200 million years ago.

Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Cambridge and some other international institutions investigating this «extreme stellar output» observed jets of hot plasma and gas bubbles (at about 10 million degrees) blasting out from the galaxy's central black hole.

Researchers think these bubbles drag trails of relatively cooler gas (about 1 million degrees), and as the bubbles detach from the jets and drift farther out into the galaxy, the cooler gas trails become even cooler, becoming extremely cold (just slight above absolute zero), and rain back on the black hole as fuel for star formation.

Hundreds of millions, probably billions of people would have to move if you talk about 4 -, 5 -, 6 - degree increases»

The moss consists of hot gas at about two million degrees Fahrenheit which emits extreme ultraviolet light observed by the TRACE instrument.

Solar moss consists of hot gas at about two million degrees Fahrenheit which emits extreme ultraviolet light observed by the TRACE instrument.

Hundreds of millions, probably billions of people would have to move if you talk about 4 -, 5 -, 6 - degree increases» Homeland Security Newswire 24 Feb 2009

When the temperature reaches about four million degrees Fahrenheit, nuclear fusion begins, tremendous amounts of energy are produced, and the star begins to shine.

The analysis result shows these molecular lines are emitted from high - temperature (several hundred degrees), high - density (about ten thousand to one million hydrogen molecules per cubic centimeter) regions where HCN molecules are actively generated.

The visible part of the sun is about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit (5,500 degrees Celsius), while temperatures in the core reach more than 27 million F (15 million C), driven by nuclear reactions.

The image shows different amounts of coronal material at a temperature of about 2.7 million degrees Fahrenheit.

The intergalactic medium in the halos was at a relatively low temperature of only about 10,000 degrees Celsius (about 18,000 degrees Fahrenheit), which is widely divergent from the currently accepted models that put the temperature of gases in close proximity to galaxies at upward of 1 million degrees.

Its location is approximately 124 million miles (200 million kilometers) from Earth — the distance between Mars and Jupiter — though its outbound path is about 20 degrees above the plane of planets that orbit the Sun.

Plus, this recipe uses a slow cooker for those who 1) enjoy throwing everything into one pot and running away, and 2) laughing forever about turning on the oven when it's a million degrees outside.

An estimated 60 to 70 million Americans — about one of every four people — have some degree of Syndrome X, which sets the stage for adult - onset diabetes and coronary artery disease.

I know it is like 9 million degrees, and it seems impossible to think about anything other than sandals.

And yet, according to Pew Research and the most recent report from National Center for Education Statistics: In 2011 to 2012, about one - fifth (20.5 percent) of the 1.79 million bachelor degrees were in business, which includes marketing.

The measure also calls for allotting about $ 2 million over five years for grants to help cover tuition for older students who are close to finishing degrees and need financial help.

There is a lot of heat now, ten billion degrees of it, enough to begin the nuclear reactions that create the lighter elements — principally hydrogen and helium, with a dash (about one atom in a hundred million) of lithium.

For example, a student who takes out the average $ 35,000 in loans to complete a four - year college degree will make about $ 1 million more in lifetime income than his peers with just a high - school diploma.

While millions of Americans have been navigating these waters for years, new graduates may be nervous about the total bill for their degree.

More jobs require a degree so there should be more opportunities; the starting salary is higher for college graduates and they can expect to make about $ 1.3 million more over their lifetime than those who didn't get a degree.

The American Veterinary Medical Association estimates that about 15 % of the 72 million dogs in the US, suffer from some degree of separation anxiety.

They also found that the global temperature was 2 to 3 degrees Celsius higher than today while CO2 levels were only between about 365 and 415 parts per million (ppm)-- similar to today's concentration of about 386 ppm.»

John Carter August 8, 2014 at 12:58 am chooses to state his position on the greenhouse effect in the following 134 word sentence: «But given the [1] basics of the greenhouse effect, the fact that with just a very small percentage of greenhouse gas molecules in the air this effect keeps the earth about 55 - 60 degrees warmer than it would otherwise be, and the fact that through easily recognizable if [2] inadvertent growing patterns we have at this point probably at least [3] doubled the total collective amount in heat absorption and re-radiation capacity of long lived atmospheric greenhouse gases (nearly doubling total that of the [4] leading one, carbon dioxide, in the modern era), to [5] levels not collectively seen on earth in several million years — levels that well predated the present ice age and extensive earth surface ice conditions — it goes [6] against basic physics and basic geologic science to not be «predisposed» to the idea that this would ultimately impact climate.»

The temperature of the core is about 15 million degrees Kelvin and the density is about 150 g / cm ^ 3 (approximately 10 times the density of gold or lead).