Sentences with phrase «fraction of a degree»

As to cooling the earth, well, a tiny fraction of a degree maybe, and even then it would take a few hundred years.

The «hottest year» claim depends on minute fractions of a degree difference between years.

Both are well known to be accurate to fractions of a degree over hundreds of years.

Fire tips the balance Global climate change moves slowly, advancing by parts per million of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere or fractions of a degree Celsius.

The 1 °F margin between 2012 and 1998 may not seem like much at first, but usually such temperature records are set by just a few fractions of a degree.

Man's contribution to the effect is nearly nil, and to spend * trillions * of dollars to stop a tiny fraction of a degree of climate change is beyond stupid.

It will be hooked to a dilution refrigerator set at 10 - to - 50 milli - Kelvins, a temperature more than 50 times colder than deep space and a small fraction of a degree above absolute zero.

Could someone tell me how it is possible to reconstruct paleotemperatures to fractions of a degree using any kind of analysis.

No one is buying the manufactured tripe surrounding claims based on fractions of a degree.

View of the dilution refrigerator that will lower temperature to a small fraction of a degree above absolute zero when connected.

A more aerodynamic (and removable) chin spoiler reduces the SUV's hill approach and departure angles by fractions of a degree, but the SVR is still just a tire swap away from going from track to trail.

Bjorn Lomborg's 2016 paper on the impact of current climate proposals (full text here) reveals that the trillions of dollars that the world is spending on climate change mitigation will result in a tiny fraction of a degree difference in the global temperature by the end of the century.

But in warm - blooded species, which continuously regulate body temperature, the task is more difficult: The brain must be tricked into thinking the local temperature — which it senses through clues like blood flow — is too hot so that it lowers the body temperature a few fractions of a degree.

That we should not expect that heat, as such, in that location, to have any substantive effect on climate... as it corresponds to fractions of a degree over the entirety of the ocean and has no effect on the energy balance.

Craig W. Johnson, chairman of the Venture Law Group, once said that starting companies is much like launching a rocket: If at launch you're just a fraction of a degree off, you could end up a thousand miles off course downrange.

All sous vide products in the Grant Creative Cuisine are accurate to a fraction of a degree, meaning you can deliver high quality, consistent sous vide dishes every time.

This tugs at nearby rubidium atoms which have been chilled to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero: a positive charge on the surface of the nanotubes attracts the rubidium atoms» electrons, while the positively charged nucleus is repelled.

Known as a sous vide cooker, the heated bath holds food for hours within a fraction of a degree of the preset temperature, eliminating oxidation reactions that can discolor food and harm its flavor or texture.

When cooled to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero, atoms are easier to control, and their quantum properties come to the fore.

The transition temperature is now between 100 and 200 millikelvin, which is just a fraction of a degree above absolute zero (minus 459.6 degrees Fahrenheit).

Chang and Kim cooled liquid helium to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero and compressed it at 900 pounds per square inch.

Predicted warming of a fraction of a degree may be too much for them.

Ordinary atoms can only form a BEC when cooled gradually to within a fraction of a degree of absolute zero.

The researchers use a quantum gas microscope to image the atoms, which have been cooled to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero and trapped in place using lasers.

Using lasers, scientists have chilled a dipolar molecule to a temperature just a fraction of a degree above absolute zero (around minus 273 °C)-- an important step in the race to generate new kinds of ultra-cold matter that could be used for everything from quantum computing to chemistry.

To observe spin waves, McGuirk and physicists Heather Lewandowski and Dave Harber started with a cloud of rubidium atoms chilled to fractions of a degree above absolute zero.

The experiment monitors germanium detectors, cooled to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero, for subtle vibration and ionization effects that would be produced by WIMPs colliding with germanium nuclei.

That temperature is impressive because it was thought that cooling an object down to fractions of a degree above absolute zero was the only way to keep its atoms from jostling each other and destroying entanglement's delicate links, or coherence.

This effect occurs when electrons are confined to thin films of certain materials, subjected to large electric and magnetic fields, and cooled to within just a fraction of a degree above absolute zero.

Cooling an object down to fractions of a degree above absolute zero was thought to be the only way to keep atoms from doing violence to each other.

[46](Presently the ecliptic latitude is 43.5 ° South but it has decreased by a fraction of a degree since Ptolemy's time due to proper motion.)

When the crystal is magnetized and cooled to a fraction of a degree, the electrons unite, forming a peculiar quantum state that could be the makings of an unimaginably powerful computer.

And the temperature change was a fraction of a degree!