Sentences with phrase «as thick»

Researchers have known that the bird's wings induce lift by generating what are called leading - edge vortices (represented as thick blue layers around the wing edges).

The detailed mapping and sampling of the partially eroded Kima» Kho tuya in northern British Columbia, Canada shows that the ancient regional ice sheet through which the volcano erupted was twice as thick as previously estimated.

The creatures are as thick as a human torso and can grow up to a length of 56 feet.

It has a crushing carbon dioxide atmosphere 90 times as thick as Earth's.

Study of the materials has been hindered by their extremely small size: A single metal thread is sometimes only as thick as a human hair, and the thickness of its gold coating is a hundredth of that.

«It's very difficult to do this because of the minute size of the neurons,» which are roughly one - tenth as thick as a human hair.

The moorings, galvanized steel wires as thick as a pinkie, are anchored to the ocean floor and tugged vertically by submerged floats.

Since plants can't run away from herbivores, many have evolved defenses such as thick leaves or prickly spines.

They found that rubber replicas are not comparable with one another and that, in general, high viscosity rubber compounds which pour as thick liquids make replicas that are less similar — and less desirable — compared to the original surface.

Unlike other smart papers, which can be as thick and stiff as a credit card, the Oji version is just a tad heftier than ordinary paper.

In a 2001 article, U.S. News & World Report called Lanza the «living embodiment» of the fictional genius in the movie Good Will Hunting, whose Massachusetts accent is as thick as Lanza's own.

The process also allows the ceramics to be laid down as a thick film on other material.

In the field season 2014, the 60 - strong excavation team uncovered finds from all periods of the 2,000 - year history of the cult site, such as the thick enclosing wall of the first Iron Age sanctuary or the foundations of the main Roman temple of the god Jupiter Dolichenus, who became one of the most important deities of the Roman Empire in the 2nd century A.D.. His sanctuary is situated close to the town of Gaziantep on the 1,200 metres (3,900 feet) high mountain of Dülük Baba Tepesi.

Saturn's largest moon already provides necessities such as a thick atmosphere.

For example: water becomes as thick as treacle, Brownian motion buffets things all over the place, and particles become much more «sticky» and attracted to one other.

Readings obtained by 35 monitoring stations indicate that the Indian plate is 100 kilometers thick, only one - third as thick as other pieces of the former supercontinent, the researchers report tomorrow in Nature.

Now that the nonaqueous, non-arctic globe is mostly paved, and people are as thick upon the Earth as mold on month - old bread, a device has been invented at last that tells you where you are without having to ask strangers.

It exits your body as a thick, gooey, gelatinous mass.

Or make a road twice as thick.»

Florensky instead believed the lake was older than the Tunguska event, based on having found loose sediments as thick as seven meters below the bottom of the lake.

Mercury, held in troughs between the ridges, captures any gold in the sediments as a thick, pasty amalgam.

One of the most important of these is erosion by fine bits of windblown dust, even though the Martian atmosphere is less than 1 percent as thick as Earth's.

That's about as long as it takes for the laser light to go through the target, which is only 1/100 as thick as a human hair.

He singles out a small maple as thick as a soda straw and less than two feet tall.

«Our passion used to be as thick as the beard of Associate Justice William Burnham Woods!

The red circles (left images) show the boundary between the melanin core and the silica shell, which is twice as thick in the bottom image as in the top.

Levin encountered such blooms recently in low - oxygen environments off India's coast, where «the jellyfish were as thick as soup,» she says.

Some of the bundles are as thick as a man's chest, and the largest may hold up to 100 feet of rope.

Inserting magnetic droplets at different locations in the tissue, and generating forces by applying a magnetic field to the droplets, the researchers showed that the tissue behaves like a fluid while growing, with similar mechanical characteristics as thick honey.

Some saw a map in which the Utah - Nevada border was drawn as a thick, dark line, whereas others got a map showing the border as a light, dotted line.

From 500 feet up everything appeared in miniature except the giant ice shelves — seemingly endless expanses of ice, as thick as the length of several football fields, that float in the Southern Ocean, fringing the ice sheets that virtually cover the Antarctic landmass.

Previous studies approximated it as a thick fluid.

Sitting obligingly in front of anancient computer monitor, May watches as thick black - and - orange barsappear on the screen.

As the eons passed, most of the carbon dioxide was absorbed into carbonate rocks, and Earth's atmosphere, which started out 10 to 20 times as thick as it is today, gradually thinned.

Wade recalls that they removed the top of one of the heads before they inserted the brain whisk — an eight - inch - long hooked bronze tool half as thick as a pencil — and were able to observe the path the liquefied tissue took as it churned inside the skull.

At six inches, the PEAK stand - up Paddle Board is almost as thick as they come!

Saturn's moon Titan is the only moon in the solar system that has an atmosphere as thick as Earth's, consisting of more than 98 percent nitrogen, roughly 1.4 percent of methane, and smaller amounts of other gases.

This tidal energy produces more than enough internal heat to create a global water ocean, possibly as thick in places as 50 kilometers, buried under an outer layer of ice a few kilometers thick.

A mission to study seafloor life suddenly exposed by the breaking away of the Larsen C iceberg last July was delayed as it tried to navigate through floating ice, some chunks as thick as 5 meters.

I've got skin as thick as a rhinoceros.

Gov. Cuomo needs to show that even someone as thick as he is mentally speaking, has learned enough to play it straight on these appointments.

I got skin as thick as a rhinoceros so I'm ready for anything.»

The monarch was said to have willfully and unlawfully damaged economy trees such as Thick trees, Cashew trees and Honey trees, valued at N5, 300, 000 properties belonging to one Tajudeen Adelabu.

Kind of like with the whole ACA meme - for something as complicated and encompassing as healthcare, that document better be at least as thick as a phone book.

George W Bush, who provided endless material, either through the depictions of him as thick, or his British - backed foreign intervention in Iraq has left office.

It should start off as a thick paste and then start to break apart into a heavy powdered consistency.

Five times as thick and more absorbent than Gerber Training Pants for Boys and they look comfy too.

Its flaky not grainy so it goes through the nipple easier since its not as thick.

The consistency is almost as thick as the regular cream and I find the scent to be fairly pleasant and clean.

Since it's not as thick as lotion, it also facilitates a quicker shave, leaving you more time for other obligations.