Sentences with phrase «micrometres from»

Sulphur pearl of Namibia (Thiomargarita namibiensis) Length: 750 micrometres From the biggest of the biggest, we go to the biggest of the smallest.

Not exact matches

The burrows measure from under 50 to 600 micrometres or microns -LRB-?

For small structures in particular (from 100 nanometres to 10 micrometres) no good solutions for this problem existed yet.

Ions from the water attached themselves to the cultivator blade, forming a layer a few micrometres thick, and a current of between 0.2 and 2.6 amps passed through the soil.

The scaffold is made from a polymer sheet and zapped with a laser to form a honeycomb structure of individual pores, each shaped like a concertina roughly 500 micrometres long.

The microfilm is made by depositing 3 to 7 micrometres of the solid liquid crystal on a sheet of PET, the transparent plastic from which some fizzy drink bottles are made, which acts as a support.

The final lens cut from these deposits was 40 micrometres (millionths of a metre) wide, 17.5 micrometres thick and 6.5 micrometres deep.

This false - colour image was created by selecting and combining the best images obtained from many short VISIR exposures at a wavelength of 5 micrometres.

«The light elements that makes up these «molecular tadpoles» are easily located by neutrons» says Dr Isabelle Grillo, at the ILL. «Moreover, small angle neutron scattering which we use at the ILL allows to characterise the self - assembled systems from the nanometre scale to tenth of micrometres and is perfectly adapted to observe the coming together of the C60 footballs» into these beautiful core structures.»

Next, they sieved volcanic ash collected from farmland near Eyjafjallajökull and kept those particles that were 57 micrometres in diameter or less.

They trapped one sphere in a laser beam and then fired rapid pulses of light from a second laser at others a few micrometres away.

This allowed the photons to interact more strongly over a short distance, changing the property of the light that emerged from the other end of the one - micrometre - long channel.

Constructed from gold - plated nickel, it is around 700 micrometres wide when fully open, shrinking to 200 micrometres with the arms folded.

By developing a new fluorescence microscopy - based technique, the researchers were able to measure how long it takes proteins to move over distances ranging from 0.2 to 3 micrometres in living cells.

This means reducing the width of the spiral track of data «pits» (which each record one bit of data) from a CD's 1.6 micrometres to 1 micrometre, and also shortening the pits from 3 to 0.3 micrometres.

Radiation emitted from Earth is called longwave radiation; it falls within the infrared portion of the spectrum and has typical wavelengths of 4 to 30 micrometres (0.0002 to 0.001 inch).

This diagram shows types, and size distribution in micrometres, of atmospheric particulate matter This animation shows aerosol optical thickness of emitted and transported key tropospheric aerosols from 17 August 2006 to 10 April 2007, from a 10 km resolution GEOS - 5 «nature run» using the GOCART model.

They include mostly single - celled microfossils ranging from a few micrometres (one - millionth of a metre) to one millimetre in size, and each is made up of a sac of organic tissue (vesicle).

ALMA, in contrast, will probe the sky for radiation at longer wavelengths from a few hundred micrometres to about 1 mm.

MATISSE (Multi AperTure mid-Infrared SpectroScopic Experiment) observes infrared light — light between the visible and microwave wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum, covering wavelengths from 3 — 13 micrometres (µm).

Each lith is only about 2.5 micrometres (millionths of a metre) across but when the algae bloom en masse the effects can be seen from space.

Back radiation in the far infra - red from the Greenhouse Effect occurs at wavelengths centred around 10 micrometres, well off the scale of this chart, and can not penetrate the ocean beyond the surface «skin».

The infrared spectrum: «Infrared (IR) light is electromagnetic radiation with longer wavelengths than those of visible light, extending from the nominal red edge of the visible spectrum at 0.74 micrometres (µm) to 300 µm.»

Further highlighting the urgency of the issue in China, new research from Tsinghua University found that an estimated 670,000 premature deaths from four diseases - strokes, lung cancer, coronary heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - were linked to air pollution, especially particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 micrometres or less (a.k.a. PM 2.5).