Sentences with phrase «cloud less than a tenth»
The newly minted francium is captured in the glass chamber shown here, where it is surrounded by a magnetic field and cooled by lasers until it condenses to form a cloud less than a tenth of an inch in diameter.
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Today, the air contains about 1,000 particles that can serve as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) in a cubic centimeter (less than a tenth of a cubic inch).