Sentences with phrase «larger than a grain»

The devices are no larger than a grain of rice and are inserted painlessly.

Actually the vegetables and fruits on the Food Pyramid, when taken together, are larger than the grains group.

The morbid color, by now a staple of the Rockies, comes not from fire or some exotic disease but from an insect no larger than a grain of rice — the bark beetle.

When that materialmostly particles no larger than grains of sandcomes into contact with our planet's atmosphere it burns up, creating meteors, or shooting stars.

And in between those large, spherical bodies lie irregularly shaped objects, ranging in size from huge asteroids to rock - sized meteoroids to tiny particles no larger than a grain of dust.

So, if there is a planet in the gap and there is no dust larger than a grain of sand farther out, we have provided a challenge for traditional planet formation models.»

Acha and iburu cereal grains are another name for them mostly consumed whole, perhaps because of their small size (Jideani and Akingbala 1993)-- each seed is only slightly larger than a grain of sand.

FOSSILS Traces and preserved remains of ancient life found within rock layers Fossils show Biodiversity How species have changed over time Correlation 4 Ways to tell the age of a rock Absolute Dating All you need is a tiny sample of material (mineral, bone) no larger than a grain of rice.

It took 90 minutes to complete the surgery which entailed scooping out the stones, which ranged in size from slightly larger than a grain of salt to 3/8 of an inch squared.

The microchips are no larger than a grain of rice and are implanted in your animal without the use of anesthesia and similar to getting a routine shot.

A pet microchip is a tiny radio frequency ID transponder no larger than a grain of rice, implanted under the fur between your pet's shoulder blades.

The microchip is slightly larger than a grain of rice and is placed just under the scruff of the neck by a veterinarian.

It is slightly larger than a grain of rice and is placed just under the skin by a veterinarian.

Not exact matches

And we think that's due to the large amount of rice that's eaten on a gluten - free diet because rice appears to absorb these heavy metals from the ground at a greater rate than say, other grains.

Railways say they have faced challenges due to a larger - than - expected grain crop and extreme winter weather.

After 1980, Chile did indeed begin to break up its large landholdings, but in a way dictated by Chicago monetarists emphasizing export crops wine and vegetables rather than grain to feed its population by a policy of import displacement.

It is clearly an analogy to indicate a large number, rather than an actual indication of an infinite number (by the way, the number of stars in the Universe must be infinite) unless Tropher believes there are an infinite number of grains of sand on Earth.....

Although social surveys indicate that roughly 80 percent of Americans believe in life after death, it is a belief cherished against the grain of perceived official skepticism; and among academically trained religious thinkers, one finds a greater measure of skepticism than in the population at large.

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i learned: one egg (medium to large), 100g flour (you could go adventurous here and use spelt flour — a native grain to the swabian alb, true spaetzle domain) and a small amount of lukewarm water (which you add at the very end, to see how much you actually need — not more than 125 ml on 4 eggs, so maybe... 1/4 cup per egg?)

Spread the buckwheat on a large rimmed baking sheet and cool for 10 minutes to make sure the grains stay separate, rather than glomming onto each other.

Kosher salt, because it is a larger grain, is about 50 % lighter in weight than table salt and therefore has less sodium.

I haven't tried milling my own rices, but I do know using a NutriMill will make the texture come out a little less gritty than with the Vitamix and is much more efficient for grinding large amounts of grain.

Kosher salt is also widely used and has a larger grain than table salt, and it often lacks the chemical additives found in table salt.

Pleasant Hill Grain has been the world's largest retailer of the NutriMill line of grain mills for more than a deGrain has been the world's largest retailer of the NutriMill line of grain mills for more than a degrain mills for more than a decade.

Israeli couscous is pasta with bead - sized grains that are much larger than those of regular couscous.

Because it has a longer cooking time than some of the other grains, it works well to cook a larger batch of barley to eat for the week.

Oats tend to go rancid more quickly than other grains — so buying them in very large quantities is not a good idea.

The largest single sub-section of the plate is vegetables and when combined with fruits, makes half of the plate; grains and protein take up the other 50 % of the plate, with the suggested grain intake being slightly higher than the suggested protein intake.

Now, let's take all this with a grain of salt — MySpace is still much larger than Facebook and, at least according to fairly recent figures, the time its users spent on the site per month has not been decreasing.

But that doesn't mean it's a waste of time to try to shape the tweeted concensus, any more than it's a waste of time to get your spokesperson on MSNBC, Fox or Meet the Press — just take the results with a large grain of salt.

Now, first - of - their - kind field tests in the western Sahara reveal that the fields — generated when windblown sand grains rub together — loft desert dust much more effectively than previously recognized, creating larger and longer lasting storms than wind alone.

Zooplankton no bigger than grains of rice play a much larger role in the transport and storage of CO2 in the ocean than previously thought

Researchers have known for decades that, when shaken or stirred, a mixture of two grainy materials will spontaneously separate if the grains of one material are much larger or denser than the grains of the other.

The disk, which we see edge on, contains rock and ice fragments ranging in size from objects larger than houses to grains as small as smoke particles.

Careful analysis of the polarisation results revealed these grains of dust to be comparatively large particles, 0.5 micrometres across, which may seem small, but grains of this size are about 50 times larger than the dust normally found in interstellar space.

But isotopes overlaid with DNA tracking might provide firmer, finer - grained identifications than either could alone — if the practitioners of both techniques can collect a large enough database.

Because olivine in Earth's mantle has a larger grain size than most olivine samples tested in labs, the results suggest that the mantle, which comprises up to 95 percent of the planet's tectonic plates, is in fact weaker than once believed.

The amount of pollen grains was significantly larger in the safe sites of B. terrestris (11208 ± 5779) than in those of A. mellifera (6240 ± 3135)(Mann - Whitney U-test: p < 0.007, Z = -2.74).

The walk out to Pluto, a speck of dust ten times smaller than our sand - grain Earth, would be nearly a half - kilometer, and along the way you'd be lucky to encounter any of the planets: Even the largest, Jupiter, would be no bigger than a small marble.

The team found that gravel and other large bits adsorbed less uranium (IV) than smaller grains.

The CDR potential and possible environmental side effects are estimated for various COA deployment scenarios, assuming olivine as the alkalinity source in ice ‐ free coastal waters (about 8.6 % of the global ocean's surface area), with dissolution rates being a function of grain size, ambient seawater temperature, and pH. Our results indicate that for a large ‐ enough olivine deployment of small ‐ enough grain sizes (10 µm), atmospheric CO2 could be reduced by more than 800 GtC by the year 2100.

Comparison between the F110W and H - band images is consistent with a grey color of 49 ceti's dust, indicating grains larger than > 2microns.

Plus, Whole Foods has a much larger selection of a variety of different grains, beans and nuts, more than you will find at a conventional grocery store.

This microbiome (the population of all the microorganisms and their genetics in the large intestine) consists of more bacteria than stars in the sky and grains of sand on the beaches, and is the hottest topic in the fields of functional medicine, integrative psychiatry and peak performance right now.

Nitrosamines, which are potent carcinogens, are often found in soy protein foods, and are greatly increased during the high temperature drying process.20 Not surprisingly, animal feeding studies show a lower weight gain for rats on soy formula than those on whole milk, high - lactose formula.21 Similar results have been observed in children on macrobiotic diets which include the use of soy milk and large amounts of whole grains.

The agenda of vegetarians and health reformers who urged Americans to consume fewer animal products, eat more grain and cereal products, and to substitute polyunsaturated oils found in corn and soybean oil for saturated animal fats like butter and lard, fit neatly into large agribusiness efforts to increase the market for processed foods that have a wider profit margin than eggs and meat.11

Another great benefit to these grains is that typically they contain a much larger and diverse range of probiotic bacteria and yeasts than does powdered kefir starter.

Okay, I'm exaggerating, but you should get used to the fact that servings of veggies are always going to be larger than portion sizes for other food groups like meat, dairy, and grains, which all require some restraint.