Sentences with phrase «larger than dust»

Any object larger than dust particles would dim all wavelengths of light equally when passing in front of Tabby's Star.

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.

Rectangular Shape Morocco likes rectangular measuring spoons, because they're narrow enough to fit inside spice jars, which is helpful for measuring any quantities larger than a dusting or a shake.

Not exact matches

While the cake is baking, lay a dry kitchen towel slightly larger than the pan on a flat surface, and dust the towel with a thin layer of powdered sugar.

Dust your work surface with gluten - free flour and roll dough out evenly into a circle at least 1 inch larger than your pie pan.

Roll out dough, dusting with flour as needed, to a rectangle slightly larger than 16x12».

Sift generous dusting of starch - sugar mixture onto work surface, forming rectangle slightly larger than 13x9 inches.

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.

That's at least 100 times larger than the nanodiamonds that form when planetary objects collide, and it's far larger than diamonds that form by condensing from carbon vapor inside clouds of interplanetary gas and dust.

Smaller than a speck of dust and made up of a group of molecules, the nano - sized flower and petals provide a large surface area for immobilizing the highly active enzymes that are needed to detect the bacteria at low levels.

That's 25 to 50 times larger than most circumstellar dust.

Instead, the team proposes, soot and other particles in the ships» exhaust create large numbers of cloud droplets that are, on average, smaller than those forming around natural dust particles in the air elsewhere over the ocean.

By examining infrared data taken earlier by the Spitzer Space Telescope, they discovered a swath of dust particles ranging in size from 0.1 to 20 microns (finer than a split hair) that added up to the mass of a large asteroid and, based on their warmth, were strewn about 1.8 Earth — sun distances from the star.

The Atacama Large Millimeter / Submillimeter Array (ALMA), high up in the deserts of northern Chile, is sensitive to light from cooler objects of the cosmos: clouds of gas and dust rather than burning stars.

Participants with high levels of TCEP in their house dust were more than four times as likely to have larger, more aggressive tumors that extended beyond the thyroid, according to the study.

Spinach, which had some of the highest detected radiation levels, has large leaves that collect more radioactive dust than nonleafy vegetables.

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 newly - achieved periodic crystal structures are more than 1000 times larger than those discrete DNA brick structures, sizing up closer to a speck of dust, which is actually quite large in the world of DNA nanotechnology.

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.»

For the same reason, infrared astronomy enables researchers to observe cosmic objects through large clouds of interstellar dust that scatter infrared radiation substantially less than visible light.

If the abundance of dust and gas is comparable to that in typical environment in the universe (the mass ratio of dust and gas is 1 to 100), the dense region is massive enough to attract large amount of gas due to the self - gravity and form giant gaseous planets several times more massive than Jupiter.

Our results suggest that the size of the smooth cloud, a dominant component in the model, is by about 10 % more compact than previously thought, and that the dust sizes are not large enough to emit blackbody radiation in the mid-IR.

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

(Need proof, check out 2008's The Wackness and 2011's 50/50) Did All the Boys Love Mandy Lane deserve to be dusted off and appreciated by a larger audience than just industry insiders in Toronto?

I'm interested in removing the dust shields on my car because I'm looking to install larger calipers than what my car originally came with.

At sixteen inches, the Evo's BBS street wheels were also an inch larger than the M3's and were painted brake - dust gray.

Beginning when the dust of the Second World War has only just begun to settle and rushing onward into the Sixties, Benjamin Johncock traces the path of this young couple as they are uprooted by events much larger than themselves.

Moon - dust Jean explains that the Phoenix Force seems to amplify the emotions of its host, making then larger than life itself.

Old school fans such as myself may have fallen by the wayside over the years, left in the dust and mud to bleed out, but the new formula attracted and retained a larger audience (and more money) than ever before.

PT: Large piles of toys gathering dust don't speak well of our consumerist culture, and my inner hoarder feels slightly ashamed looking at them, but then they also reflect Baudelaire's statement that «Is not the whole of life to be found [in a great toyshop] in miniature - and far more highly colored, sparkling and polished than real life?»

A large percentage of this dust has an edge dipole radiation length shorter than IR wavelengths.

Send Wall - E up there with a shovel, and you can just keep reusing the same dust as it falls back down (slowly)... A potential problem, though, is forward scattering — in particular, if the dust cloud is large enough to extend significantly beyond the disk of the sun as seen from Earth, it might «focus» light on the Earth more than block it (of course it doesn't focus light, it would just seem like it from Earth).

* deposition of alkaline dust on tundra along roads, altering vegetation over a much larger area than the actual width of the road.

According to the 2005 Environment Canada Air Pollution Emissions Inventory, residential wood - burning fireplaces, dust from unpaved roads and meat cooking are larger contributors to fine particulate emissions than coal - fired generation.

This documentary covers the dust bowl that plagued the Midwest from 1930 to 1940 and covered an area larger than 100 million acres.

The Dust Bowl drought was atypical for a North American drought in many ways, most notably the fact that it was centered over the Great Plains rather than in the southwest and was accompanied by large scale dust storms that were unprecedented in the historical recDust Bowl drought was atypical for a North American drought in many ways, most notably the fact that it was centered over the Great Plains rather than in the southwest and was accompanied by large scale dust storms that were unprecedented in the historical recdust storms that were unprecedented in the historical record.

Kok's work, which focused on a type of airborne particle called mineral dust, also suggests that there may be several times more dust particles pumped into the atmosphere than previously believed, since shattered dust appears to produce an unexpectedly high number of large fragments.

Many of the mechanisms are like that — the tides, the direct inductive heating, the heating caused by the days influx of falling meteorites — which incidentally is far greater than the rate of heat loss through outgassing, as meteoric dust and matter infalls at an average rate of at least millimeters per decade, from my own direct measurements — they have «impressively» large amounts of annual energy associated with them, right up to where you divide by the surface area of the earth and the number of seconds in a year.

Grasslands are unable to sustain herds much larger than the existing ones, as evidenced by the vast dust bowl forming in northern China, largely from overgrazing by sheep and goats.

The researchers calculate that the largest near - Earth asteroid, 1036 Ganymed, could maintain a dust cloud large enough to block out 6.58 percent of the solar radiation that would normally reach Earth, more than enough to combat any current global warming trends.

You can check my 1988 - Naturwissenschaften - paper on dust transport for the particle size versus suspension lifetime stats, The bottom line is that as millimeter sized grains fall out in hours, and vertical convection systems seldom cohere for days, few particles larger than tens of microns make it across the pond.

It has a similar frame than the Galaxy S8, for example, but features comically large bezels, a smaller battery, and it also lacks storage expandability and proper water and dust resistance.

It has an excellent processor — just slightly faster than the one used in the Mi 5 Pro — as much memory, the highest rated camera so far, splash and dust resistant, a larger battery, and is running the latest Android 7.1 Nougat.

This Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is kicking up dust with T - Mobile right alongside the Galaxy Gear as a kind of one - two punch, with the handset being a bit larger than some would feel comfortable holding up to their ear and the smartwatch acting as an all - things - simple syncing device.

The Android 8.0 Oreo handset packs a bigger 6 - inch Quad HD (2,560 x 1440 pixels) Super LCD display into a frame that's just a hair larger than its predecessor, while also adding IP68 water and dust resistance.