Sentences with phrase «kilograms of»

It contains 370 kilograms of liquid xenon, making it more sensitive than either XENON or CDMS.

So a 100 - gram shrimp cocktail represents an «astonishing» 198 kilograms of carbon dioxide from the loss of the mangrove, Kauffman said, the equivalent of burning 90 liters of gasoline.

The brain gets rid of some 1.5 kilograms of waste products a year, equivalent to its own weight.

A squabble then ensued over whether XENON researchers properly calibrated their detector, which was filled with 100 kilograms of frigid liquid xenon.

The new production method would yield enough graphene to scale this up for industrial processes, which normally involve kilograms of raw material.

He looked at farms that are relatively large and not particularly productive, with harvests yielding 50 to 500 kilograms of shrimp per hectare.

A floating raft stocked with the marine bivalves could remove about 60 kilograms of nitrogen from the water each year, they suggest, and a flotilla of hundreds of rafts could make meaningful improvements to water quality in urban areas.

That would mean a fully stocked raft of mussels — about 338,000 animals in all — could potentially sequester more than 60 kilograms of nitrogen in their tissues, shells, and bodily fluids.

Each new plant can handle around 300 tyres — about 1000 kilograms of material — in less than 9 hours.

This would be the first step in fulfilling the military's call for an autonomous, legged robot that can carry up to 181 kilograms of supplies for at least 32 kilometers without refueling.

The navy and US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reckons each ship contains about 50 kilograms of PCBs.

But they also eat about 1260 kilograms of krill, as calculated from the average number of krill present in the 80 metric tons of water they gulp.

Once you get one of the power plants going and up and running, you're going through kilograms and kilograms and kilograms of this tritium and you have to find a way to actually make tritium in this blanket at the same time that you're extracting energy.

Add a dollop of 53.8 kilograms of CO2 for the jet jaunt to Durban and you can see that the aviation industry — and the Durban climate talks — have an emissions problem.

Elephants have outsized needs for food and drink, consuming a minimum of 100 liters of water and 100 kilograms of vegetation daily.

Among many other tasks, Chang» e-5 is slated to collect about 2 kilograms of lunar soil and return to Earth.

A 3 - year field study in Yellowstone National Park, published in 2003, revealed that wolves there each month abandon between 85 and 156 kilograms of meat for every 100 square kilometers of their range, or between one - third and two - thirds the average amount left by pumas.

The roasting operation was growing fast, and now I was employing 25 people, with five direct reports, and roasting 1 million kilograms of coffee per year.

The authors estimate it is losing 100 million to 600 million kilograms of mass per second.

Each tonne of European tyres produces up to 220 kilograms of aromatic oil, 240 kilograms of gas, 420 kilograms of carbon and 160 kilograms of steel.

Each participant took a pill in one of three study sessions with either no cocaine, 125 milligrams per 70 kilograms of body weight of cocaine or 250 milligrams per 70 kilograms of body weight of cocaine in the presence of a research assistant.

This left 35 kilograms of spent fuel from the Soviet reactor and the French Tammuz 2 reactor.

They found the current American diet produces about 5 kilograms of CO2 per day, and 28 percent of that is due to wasted food.

The agency only has about 35 kilograms of plutonium left right now, according to Robert Wham, head of the Oak Ridge project.

Over a year, a mature leaf - cutter colony may pull down about 1.8 kilograms of nitrogen from the air — equivalent to the nitrogen in 10,000 square meters of surrounding tropical soil.

The cost of extracting and burning coal is about 0.64 kilograms of CO2 per kilowatt - hour of energy we get from it.

In December 2005, over 700 kilograms of molten sodium coolant burst through a pipe, releasing toxic fumes and damaging the plant.

Lackner calculates that more than 700 kilograms of CO2 passes through an opening the size of the door to this lab over a 24 - hour period when the wind is up, courtesy of another Dyson or just a windy building top.

And indeed the 50 - centimeter - long, eellike creatures can wreak havoc on freshwater communities when they invade from the sea, with a single sea lamprey able to kill 18 kilograms of fish in its lifetime.

We know that each launch puts thousands of kilograms of matter into the environment.

Of course, 700 kilograms of CO2 only equals the breath of 13 people for one day and night.

A gun - triggered uranium bomb, for example, could be fashioned by any of a number of terrorist outfits with modest technological expertise, such as the Islamic State group, providing they can lay their hands on several kilograms of highly enriched uranium.

This group was exposed to 4,200 kilograms of pesticides applied in the 1 - square - mile regions encompassing their addresses during pregnancy.

It is a spacecraft that would scoop as much as 2 kilograms of rocky soil off a 600 - meter - diameter asteroid in 2020 and return the sample to the Utah desert in 2023 for laboratory analysis.

Lightning strikes Earth 44 times every second, which means it could produce just 2,000 to 3,000 kilograms of phosphite yearly.

If all the anchoveta were diverted through the canning industry, the researchers calculate a net yearly benefit of 40,000 jobs, $ 351 million in additional revenue and 40 kilograms of nutrient - rich, tasty fish for every person in Peru.

Hubert Mullner, another of the Hoechst team, says that tests show that using Basta after emergence may reduce total herbicide use dramatically: «Farmers now use between 2 and 6 kilograms of herbicides per hectare on sugar beet, one of the most difficult crops for weed control.

However, Witton and Mike Habib of Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have proposed that because they had short torsos, the largest pterosaurs weighed no more than 250 kilograms — and that their flight muscles were a massive 50 kilograms of that.

A ton of anchoveta caught for canning yields 150 kilograms of fish in the can and 600 kilograms of heads, guts and other bits that are perfect for fishmeal.

Which sounds great, until you consider that every day the U.S. produces or imports about 33.5 billion kilograms of chemicals.

He recovered more than 12,000 glass beads and several kilograms of glass - working debris.

IF YOU»RE a typical westerner, you ate nearly 100 kilograms of meat last year.

5) Cremating a human body releases 15 kilograms of carbon dioxide (along with other pollutants, such as mercury from dental fillings), while traditional burial uses up scarce land.

The project calls for two types of lander: one that can deliver between 30 and 100 kilograms of gear, and one that can carry 250 to 500 kilograms.

That's much more than earlier estimates, which postulated no more than about 1350 kilograms of force, and nearly 10 times more powerful than the bite of modern alligators, some of the strongest snappers alive.

With eight years needed to start producing 5 kilograms of plutonium - 238 per year, the report argues that funding be added to the 2010 budget for the project.

I knew about the manned Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969, but I didn't know how many there had been after that, or that hundreds of kilograms of moon rocks were available to be studied.

This means that each A10 could release 234 kilograms of DU a minute.

Doctoral student Stanley Cheuk and colleagues used up to 1,500 skin biopsies per experiment and a total of several hundred kilograms of healthy skin for the critical parts of the study.

An adult Tyrannosaurus could deliver as much as 5800 kilograms of force with one back tooth — where the animal's bite was strongest.