Sentences with phrase «cubic meter»

As few as 10 grains per cubic meter of air can provoke symptoms in the most sensitive people; during late summer months the count can reach into the hundreds.

A few minutes later, on deck, «the whole cubic meter of stuff was bubbling,» he says.

The team found 0.5 million to 2.5 million bacterial cells per cubic meter of air, which is about what they expected.

Average concentrations of PM2.5 in Beijing stood at 73 micrograms per cubic meter in 2016, down 9.9 percent on the previous year.

China Energy News, a state - run newspaper, cited a policymaker Monday as saying that China will complete the construction of approved coal - to - natural - gas plants but will not approve new projects until 2020, aiming to keep its coal - based synthetic natural gas production capacity to 15 billion cubic meters at the end of the decade.

World Health Organization and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency soot «standards are 25 micrograms per cubic meter over 24 hours.

At another event, Wu Xinxiong, director of China's National Energy Administration, told reporters that the country plans to increase its coal - to - natural - gas production capacity to 50 billion cubic meters by 2020.

A diesel engine pushes the house over three circular tracks where 15 trolleys can slide the 5,000 cubic meters building at a speed of 4 millimeters per second (it takes 9 hours and 20 minutes to rotate fully).»

The Chinese, to compare, use 700 cubic meters annually.

Alternating between 15,000 watts of brilliant light and no light at all, the main gallery contains the work of the show's title: a 3 dimensional drawing in space that describes 36 cubic meters with a photo - luminescent space - frame, stretching it along different axes and repeating it five times to make a nesting set.

After adjusting their findings to account for differences in race and ethnicity, sex, age, poverty level, education and urban density of the children's neighborhoods, Keet and her team found that for each microgram / cubic meter increase in coarse particulate matter, asthma diagnosis increased by 0.6 percent, emergency room visits for asthma by 1.7 percent and hospitalizations for asthma by 2.3 percent.

But that same cubic meter contains about 2 kilowatt - hours of potential chemical energy.

For their experiments, the researchers use the Kiel benthocosms, twelve experimental tanks, each holding one and a half cubic meters of Baltic Sea water.

In Darwin, Queensland and Northwest Shelf gas supplies could be consolidated into a 60 - billion cubic meter pipeline traversing the Timor Sea to East Timor and then onward to Indonesia and Northeast Asia.

U.S. shale production increased six-fold to 265 billion cubic meters last year from 45 billion in 2007.

That means the cabin will he 825 cubic meters, or bigger than the cabin of an A380, the large, luxurious commercial airline often used for international flights.

We are exporting in cubic meters enough logs to keep over 70 sawmills operating per year and the communities of at least 3500 residence per mill.

From January to October of 2017, pulp exports rose 2.9 % in comparison with the same period of the previous year, reaching 16.0 million tons sold; exports of wood panels increased by 29.4 %, with 1.1 million cubic meters directed toward foreign...

In an organic barley field in Bulgaria in 1998, a single cubic meter of soil contained 124 earthworms compared to only 21 in conventional soil46.

After the lead industry was unsuccessful in rebutting his arguments scientifically, after they lost the battle to keep lead in gasoline, after the ambient air lead standard went from 5 micrograms per cubic meter down to 1.5 in the»70s, they decided to attack him personally, and what they did was recruit two scientists who raised concerns without initially mentioning they had been hired by the lead industry.

A typical cubic meter of office air contains several hundred fungal spores, 89 micrograms of ethanol, 42 of acetone, 16 of formaldehyde, half a microgram of chloroform, and the by - products of human flatulence, a major source of methane and hydrogen sulfide.

Further increasing the formaldehyde concentration to 1 milligram per cubic meter led to a dramatic increase — up to 136.4 per cent — in cilia beating frequency relative to the baseline value.

The 54.5 million cubic meter slide traveled those 4.6 km in about 3.5 minutes, with average velocities ranging up to 36 meters per second.

They found that as the number of fine particles less than 2.5 microns in diameter increased, so, too, did the risk of dying: each jump of 10 micrograms per cubic meter corresponded to a 11 to 17 percent increase in the risk of dying from any cause.

Lost in the shuffle today may have been Hu's announcement on forests, where he promised by 2020 to increase his nation's forests by 40 million hectares and forest stock volume by 1.3 billion cubic meters relative to 2005 levels.

Researchers from UC Davis and the California Institute of Technology conducted a series of experiments in a 24 cubic meter environmental chamber using the volatile organic compound toluene, which is emitted from motor vehicles and is an important SOA precursor.

The park is home to the Soudan Underground Laboratory, a 36,000 cubic meter facility that houses half a dozen physics experiments including one that uses a detector weighing 5400 metric tons to study neutrinos fired through the earth from the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory 730 kilometers away in Batavia, Illinois.

A new study in the August issue of Ecological Indicators shows that, on average, an increase in pollution particles in the air of 10 micrograms per cubic meter cuts victims» life expectancy by 9 - 11 years — more than previously thought.

For instance, she says, although an increase in carbon monoxide levels of 10 micrograms per cubic meter raises an individual's short - term heart - attack risk by just 5 % or so, a change in air quality of that magnitude could be expected to account for 4.5 % of all heart attacks in the exposed population.

Christo's portfolio of 10 prints and a scale model of «5,600 Cubic Meter Package» for Documenta 4 in Kassel, 1968 (height 68 cm).

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The models» composite annual mean OA surface air concentrations exceed 0.5 microgram of carbon per cubic meter across most continental regions, as shown at the left of Fig. 3, with maximum concentrations primarily over biomass burning regions and secondarily over industrialized areas.

China also committed to step up reforestation efforts and increase its forest volume — which, as in Brazil, plays a key role in reducing atmospheric carbon levels — by about 4.5 billion cubic meters above 2005 levels.

«In 2014, the global consumption of coal, oil and natural gas reached 8.2 billion tons, 33.6 billion barrels and 3.5 trillion cubic meters respectively, which can sustain [the world] for 110, 53 and 54 years if the current exploration intensity still maintains,» Liu said.

The truth is that Arctic sea ice volume has gained close to 2 trillion cubic meters over last year alone, and over 2016 — using the data provided by the Danish Meteorological Institute here.

The Lingotto, once the main factory of the automobile manufacturer FIAT, was designed in the 1920s by engineer Matté Trucco; the one million cubic meter building was famous for its imposing industrial architecture as well as for the futuristic vehicle test track placed on its rooftop.

Estimates produced for about 60 countries around the world revealed that gas flaring has remained largely stable over the last 12 years — in the range of 150 - 170 billion cubic meters annually — although 22 mostly lesser developed countries increased its use over that period (on the other hand, 16 other countries decreased its use).

For each microgram / cubic meter increase in coarse particulate matter, asthma diagnosis increased by 1.3 percent, emergency room visits for asthma by 3.3 percent and hospitalizations for asthma by 4.5 percent.

For the two experiments, bladder wrack from the Kiel Fjord and smaller species of algae living on it as well as grazers like isopods, amphipods and periwinkles were introduced into the Kiel benthocosms — twelve experimental tanks, each holding a water volume of one and a half cubic meters.

Alternating between 80,000 watts of brilliant light and no light at all, the main gallery contained BREATHING ROOM II: a 3 dimensional drawing in space that describes 36 cubic meters with a photo - luminescent space - frame, stretching it along different axes and repeating it five times to make a nesting set.