Sentences with phrase «centimeter thick»

A centimeter thick layer of crystalline silicon solar cells is laid on top, and covered by a layer of toughened glass.

A simple rule of thumb is that each part per thousand of atmospheric CO2, when deposited uniformly on the surface of the Earth (the whole thing, not just the land) as densely packed dry ice, will be very close to one centimeter thick.

After an unusually warm January, Slovenia was hit by sleet; some areas ended with 10 - centimeter thick ice cover.

The bags are cut into ribbons and wrapped around an inner core of silver, the plastic and silver is fused into a log shape and cut like candy into flat slivers roughly half a centimeter thick.

High - energy X-rays penetrate inhomogeneous samples up to a centimeter thick under real operating conditions.

The next step relies on a device that resembles a bread slicer, which is used to cut the brain into sections one centimeter thick.

The U.S. has endured a slew of «near misses» in recent years: a 0.48 - centimeter thick stainless steel lining is all that stood between Davis — Besse nuclear power plant in Ohio and a meltdown in 2002.

The 10 - to 15 - centimeter thick outcrop was once submerged, he said.

GRACE has the sensitivity to pick up a puck about a centimeter thick and 400 kilometers [half an inch and 250 miles] across.»

The iPad now has officially arrived, weighing in at less than a kilogram, with a 25 - centimeter LED - backlit display that is just over a centimeter thick.

Roll the dough to be about half centimeter thick (or less if you would like to have more swirls seen in the profile) and to be as long as the inner perimeter of your baking dish (use a piece of string to measure it).

Roll up and slice rolls about 2 - centimeter thick.

Remove the parchment and cut the log into 1 centimeter thick cookies.

Sliced bread (sic) a centimeter thick staling on forty surfaces fit for soggy sandwiches real bread excels all this high top, Vienna, cob baguettes three times daily breads poignant as a sob Jewish rye and German brothers from the hob Tall grass waving gluten foreshadowed cultivation its unbloody....

Then I formed the dough into an oval shaped log and placed it on the baking sheet, and flattened it until about 1 and 1/2 centimeters thick.

Use a rolling pin (or empty wine bottle) to roll out the dough into a large circle, about 2.5 centimeters thick and 2 inches wide.

Placenta: The organ within the pregnant uterus through which the fetus derives its nourishment, at term, it averages one - sixth the weight of the fetus; is disk - shaped, about two and a half centimeters thick, and seventeen and a half centimeters in diameter.

At FPInnovations, Karacabeyli leads the way into a cavernous room, where CLT panels 17 centimeters thick and 8 meters long, like those making up the floors in the new wooden dorm nearby, lie in a stack.

In many places, it may only be a few centimeters thick.

A didymo mat several centimeters thick covers the rocky substrate of the crystal clear Duval River.

In the largest of the two fossil trunks, above the bulge, the xylem and soft tissue occupied a ring about 50 centimeters in diameter and 5 centimeters thick, with external roots making up the remainder of the 70 - centimeter - diameter tree trunk.

Rubber sole and platform 6 centimeters thick.

It is 1.27 centimeters thick and weighs 680 grams.

The cushion is a petite little thing, measuring only 6 centimeters thick, 33 cm tall, and 25 cm wide.

The individual units that comprise each work have the same measurements of 2.5 x 2.5 x 5 meters, and are made from concrete slabs that are each 25 centimeters thick.

Igor Semitelov is convinced because he spent a lot of time over there, and where the ice should be about two meters thick it was forty centimeters thick.

Once the heated layer becomes more than a few centimeters thick, the heat loss of the skin layer due to downward conduction of heat by diffusion stops having any significant effect on the surface temperature, since rock is such a good insulator that the heat flux by conduction in rock is tiny compared to the heat loss by infrared radiation out the top.

A didymo mat several centimeters thick covers the rocky substrate of the crystal clear Duval River.

There were local accumulations centimeters thick in 24 hours.

Not exact matches

At 0 percent effacement, the cervix is at least 2 centimeters (cm) long, or very thick.

Botanist Richard Condit of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution in Balboa, Panama, and colleagues systematically worked through six plots of 25 or 50 hectares each — for a grand total of about 715 soccer fields worth of terrain — in rainforests of Asia and Central America, keying out every tree with a trunk thicker than 1 centimeter.

The human retina is a patch of nervous tissue in the back of the eyeball half a millimeter thick and approximately two centimeters across.

Affix a two - centimeter - square patch of thick gray cardboard (about the same color as the TV snow) 12 centimeters or so away from the white cardboard.

The 2 - centimeter - thick layer contains tiny fossils usually found near the shore, as well as types of pollen different from those found in the rest of the core.

In the high frequency regime, take one gigahertz as an example, the thickness of the absorber would be around 7.5 centimeters, which is too thick and heavy to be used in aircrafts or warships.

A few hundred nanometers thick, it rested upon a centimeter - square carbon substrate but was otherwise unprotected.

Acrotholus means «high dome,» referring to its dome - shaped skull, which is composed of solid bone over 10 centimeters (two inches) thick.

We estimated that sediment deposition in a small body of water that stays frozen for most of the year would probably not exceed a few centimeters a year, so such a thick sediment layer might imply that the lake existed before 1908.

The cell was 1 square centimeter in size, consisting of a 200 - micron - thick silicon layer topped with a 1 - micron - thick perovskite layer.

Hoffman and his colleagues crafted their metamaterial semiconductor by placing alternating 80 - nanometer - thick (one nanometer equals 3.94 x 10 - 8 inch) layers of indium gallium arsenide and indium aluminum arsenide atop an indium phosphide substrate 5.1 centimeters (two inches) in diameter.

Ash, more than six inches (15 centimeters) thick in some places, had already coated houses, vehicles, trees and water supplies.

Fossils unearthed from a 30 - to 40 - centimeter - thick bone bed in southern Portugal suggest the creature was more than 2 meters long, weighed as much as 100 kilograms, and had a broad flat head the size and shape of a toilet seat.

When retrieved, the sediment cores were cut into 1 - centimeter - thick slices.

On inspection, a pineapple - size section on the 6.63 - inch -(16.84 - centimeter --RRB- thick carbon steel lid that holds in the pressurized, fission - heated water in the site's sole reactor had been entirely eaten away by boric acid formed from a leak.

One component of their experimental device is a hollow aluminum cylinder, 30 centimeters tall and 10 centimeters in diameter, with walls 1 millimeter thick.

So, instead of being 2 meters thick, it would only be 20 centimeters — or less than 8 inches — thick.

The only thing standing between the escape of nuclear steam and a possible chain of events leading to a meltdown was an internal liner of stainless steel just three sixteenths of an inch (0.48 centimeter) thick that had slowly bent out about an eighth of an inch (0.32 centimeter) into the cavity due to the constant 2,200 pound - per — square - inch (155 - kilogram - per - square - centimeter) pressure.

It is 11 centimeters long and 6.5 centimeters wide, six millimeters thick, weighing 12 grams and, when coated, can reaches only 80 grams.

Cao's team makes MoS2 films that are an atom thick and up to 5 centimeters in diameter.

«To put that challenge in perspective, an atom - thick thin film that is 5 centimeters wide is equivalent to a piece of paper that is as wide as a large city,» Cao said.