Sentences with phrase «centimetres thick»

The ice on Plain Lake was twenty two centimetres thick beneath them.

That's why the windows are 3.2 centimetres thick — enough to stop a bullet from an AK - 47.

The burger was excellent, it was 2.5 centimetres thick.

The mirror has to be flexible in a sense to allow you to do that and although this flexibility is of the order of microns - it is not moved by millimetres - means that the mirror is very, very thin compared with its size - it is 8.2 metres in diameter but only 17 centimetres thick to allow you to be able to apply these forces.

The chamber is 30 centimetres thick and made of metal covered by a layer of concrete laced with boron to absorb the neutrons.

The flexible cladding, which can withstand temperatures of at least 1200 °C, is a sandwich of three layers of ceramic fibre, each around 0.25 centimetres thick, interspersed with layers of silicon - coated glass fibre and thin aluminium foil.

So the team suggests that a layer of volcanic ash, perhaps a few centimetres thick, may protect the structures.

Gently roll out the dough into a bug circular shape until it's about half a centimetre thick.

Lightly flour a work surface and, using a rolling pin, roll out your dough until about half a centimetre thick.

I read this exhortation, gazed at the formidable 5 - centimetre thick volume and gulped.

Remove one dough ball from the fridge and roll it out until it is about 1/2 centimetre thick.

Not exact matches

Place the dough ball between 2 parchment paper sheets and roll it until quite thin (I like mine no thicker than 1/2 centimetre).

With an excess of thick, wiry hair and a beard line that seems to stop mere centimetres below his eyesockets, Marouane Fellaini has never been the easiest chap to look at for long periods of time.

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 exterior walls are made of 50 - centimetre - thick reinforced concrete, while utility spaces on the bottom floor are compartmentalised in a radial formation for even stress distribution — rather like the spokes in a bicycle wheel.

A 1 - centimetre - thick part made by the CVI process would have to be heated to temperatures approaching 1000 degreeC for two months.

The areas that appeared bright in the radio images but dark in the laser observations correspond to warmer patches on Mercury, where ice would be stable only if buried under a 10 - centimetre - thick layer of other material.

The discs, at 13 centimetres across, are a little wider than conventional DVDs, and slightly thicker.

It will eventually grow into a thick disc - shaped creature 20 centimetres across, known colloquially as a sea biscuit.

The sponge lives on the bottom of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and forms an approximately one - centimetre - thick glass rod to attach itself to the ocean's floor.

Spread this clay over a piece of cloth or thick piece of gauze (cut the cloth to the required size that does not exceed the area you want to treat beyond a centimetre).

Working with US - based electronic paper pioneer E-Ink, Philips has developed a paper - white, 13 centimetre - wide screen which is only 0.1 millimetres thick and can be pulled from a tight roll just 15 millimetres in diameter.

Nokia's 700 is their smallest mobile phone at just 50 cubic centimetres, whilst measuring 110 mm in height, 50.7 mm wide and is only 9.7 mm thick, along with weighing in at 96grams.

Between the sponges lie centimetre - thick mats of needles and worm - burrows.

The interior is insulated with 4 - centimetre - thick cork board.