Sentences with phrase «centimetres per»

The researchers found that between 1992 and 2016, the flow of most of the region's glaciers increased by between 20 and 30 centimetres per day, equating to an average 13 % speedup across the glaciers of Western Palmer Land as a whole.

This implies that linear sedimentation rates for the Holocene in all investigated areas are centimetres per thousand years.

The robot can swim at speeds up to 6 centimetres per second and can tolerate temperatures between 0.4 °C and 74 °C (Science Advances, doi.org/b5bp).

The latest images — which have a resolution of 5 centimetres per pixel — come from a sweep of 67P / Churyumov — Gerasimenko made by Rosetta from its closest - ever distance from the surface, just 2.7 kilometres.

«We're talking about the potential for centimetres per year just from [ice loss in] Antarctica.»

In the laboratory, the robot can follow a cordon on a trellis and even move out of the way when it encounters a trellis post at up to 12 centimetres per second, or about 7 metres per minute.

At that speed, Hydra Fusion creates maps at a resolution of 30 centimetres per pixel, clearly showing trees and buildings.

Since observations began in 1899, the North Pole has been heading southwards 10 centimetres per year along longitude 70 ° west — a line that runs through eastern Canada.

Another example according to Patton is the uplift in the Baltic, which is still observable today, though the pace of rebound has now slowed significantly to less than a centimetre per year.

Since the end of the glaciation 14,000 years ago, sea level has risen some 130 metres at almost one centimetre per year.

Not exact matches

Their densities increased from a single worm to 10,000 worms per cubic centimetre in just 10 days (Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, doi.org/bvwq).

Deep space can be near empty, perhaps containing just one atom per cubic centimetre, so vast sails would be needed to make this work.

To create this exotic state of matter, researchers at the FLASH facility in Hamburg, Germany, took a thin piece of aluminium foil and blasted it with an X-ray laser that generated about 10 million gigawatts of power per square centimetre.

It reached 0.5 picocoulombs per cubic metre in areas where there were 50 particles of ash per cubic centimetre of air (Environmental Research Letters, DOI: 10.1088 / 1748-9326/5 / 2 / 024004).

Researchers in South Korea have transmitted data at a rate of 10 megabits per second through a person's arm, between two electrodes placed on their skin 30 centimetres apart (Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, DOI: 10.1088 / 0960-1317/20 / 2 / 025032).

The pulses reached intensities of 100 quadrillion kilowatts per square centimetre.

While the global average rise is predicted to be between 30 and 106 centimetres, he says tropical seas will rise 10 or 20 per cent more, while polar seas will see a below - average rise.

One less puff of the medicine per day translated into an additional height increase of 0.25 centimetres in the first year.

It can store hundreds of gigabytes of data per square centimetre.

As well as raising IQ by 1.29, it increases the overall volume of the brain — but only by 0.58 per cent of average brain size, adding around 9 cubic centimetres of tissue.

The electrodes apply a potential of around 1.2 kilovolts per centimetre of skin.

«To make this nuclear pasta you have to compress it to 1014 grams per cubic centimetre — 100 trillion times more dense than water,» Horowitz says.

The researchers fixed a three centimetre long diamond strip, just 0.3 millimetre thick, in a specimen holder and triggered a shock wave with a brief flash from a powerful infrared laser that hit the narrow edge of the diamond; this pulse lasted 0.15 billionths of a second (150 picoseconds) and reached a power level of up to 12 trillion watts (12 terawatts) per square centimetre.

The length of the perimeter is an exact whole number of half - inches, the area in square centimetres is an integral number which is a perfect cube, and the speed of light in my dining room is 0.3 kilometres per microsecond.

Polluted areas had up to 400 droplets per cubic centimetre, while less polluted ones had as few as 50.

Betzig's group has made 400 dots in a grid 2.3 micrometres across, corresponding to 7 billion bits per square centimetre.

The simulated storm cloud dropped about 10 centimetres of snow per hour, comparable to extreme snowstorms on Earth (Journal of Geophysical Research, DOI: 10.1029 / 2010je003783).

He has found a 7.5 - centimetre - long titanosaur tooth at Salitral de Santa Rosa in Río Negro — that makes it 32 per cent longer than the previous record holder (Cretaceous Research, doi.org/j2w).

Mars could harbour no more than one billionth of Earth's biomass, or less than one microbial cell per cubic centimetre of soil, Sholes told the Astrobiology Science Conference in Mesa, Arizona, in April.

When these blocks were placed underneath large saline breast implants, the distance the bullets travelled into the gel was reduced by an average of 8 centimetres, or 20 per cent (Journal of Forensic Sciences, doi.org/b9m2).

Palmer says Titan has enough vinyl cyanide to make up to 30 million cell membranes per cubic centimetre in one of its largest seas (Science Advances, doi.org/b95g).

Ultra-deep genetic sequencing was performed on 234 biopsies taken from four patients revealing 3,760 mutations, with more than 100 cancer - associated mutations per square centimetre of skin.

EACH of these miniature masterpieces is the width of a human hair, but packs in more pixels per square centimetre than the highest resolution TV screen.

For example, Jupiter's moon Io, whose density is 3.5 grams per cubic centimetre, is all rock, whereas some of Saturn's moons, whose densities are 1.2 grams per cubic centimetre, are nearly pure water ice.

Charon is less dense at 1.4 grams per cubic centimetre.

They found that Pluto's density is 2.1 grams per cubic centimetre.

Storing 55 minutes of video on each side of a 13 - centimetre disc works out at 25 gigabits per side.

This water - and polymer - based RFB has an energy density of 10 watt hours per litre, current densities of up to 100 milliamperes per square centimetre, and stable long - term cycling capability.

Detailed radio maps of nearby molecular clouds reveal that they are clumpy, with regions containing a wide range of densities — from a few tens of molecules (mostly hydrogen) per cubic centimetre to more than one million.

It has a density of 1.7 grams per cubic centimetre like Pluto's, but less than a third that of Earth.

Near the Sun the average density of interstellar gas is 10 − 21 gm / cm3, which is the equivalent of about one hydrogen atom per cubic centimetre.

Where a healthy coral polyp might have up to two million zooxanthellae per square centimetre, numbers may drop to 200,000 in a bleaching event.

Controls had an average of 0.7 mites per square centimetre of skin, whereas the rosacea patients had an average of 12.8 mites.

Those results are certainly impressive, but they're nothing compared to those for rosacea patients where they had 15 times more demodex mites per square centimetre.

Perimeter - In this Year 4 teaching resource pupils are taught to measure and calculate the perimeter of a rectilinear figure in centimetres and metres as per the 2014 mathematics Year 4 Programme of Study (Measurement).

In smoky conditions, the team found, there are almost twice as many cloud condensation nuclei per cubic centimetre.

The concentration of cloud condensation nuclei in the lower troposphere at a supersaturation of 1 percent ranges from around 100 per cubic centimetre (approximately 1,600 per cubic inch) in size in oceanic air to 500 per cubic centimetre (8,000 per cubic inch) in the atmosphere over a continent.

He said that if global warming was not halted, the rate of sea - level rise would change from millimetres per year to centimetres a year.

This region reflects radio waves with frequencies up to about 35 megahertz; the exact value depends on the peak amount of the electron concentration, typically 106 electrons per cubic centimetre, though with large variations caused by the sunspot cycle.

What climate deniers do is point to observations of sea level rise (these can actually go down locally for several years, following cyclical patterns) and then often say «hey, it's 2 or 3 millimetres per year — so that's 20 or 30 centimetres in a century» (or less, if they choose to cherry - pick half of a local natural cycle).