Sentences with phrase «hundredths of a millimeter»

As with IBM's computer, although the full package is bulky, the quantum part is minuscule: The chain of ions spans just hundredths of a millimeter.
Thin sections of sedimentary rocks between 2.7 and 3.5 billion years old reveal the presence of small inclusions a hundredth of a millimeter in diameter.
This «latent heat,» the heat that is absorbed or released in a phase transition, is trapped in the bottom of the bubble because the orb's skin is too thin — about a hundredth of a millimeter — for heat to easily conduct.
By contrast, the new nano - spirals have solid arms and are much smaller: A square array with 100 nano - spirals on a side is less than a hundredth of a millimeter wide.
Cloud droplets, for example, might be a couple hundredths of a millimeter in diameter, while the smallest grid cells that are considered in a model may be more like a couple hundred kilometers across.

Not exact matches

The Allende carbonaceous meteorite is peppered with inclusions that have a ceramic - like chemistry (red for calcium, blue for aluminum, green for magnesium in the false color image below; field of view is 0.5 millimeters, approximately one - hundredth of an inch).
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