Sentences with phrase «more than an order of magnitude longer»

«The direct experimental proof of confined ultra-long linear carbon chains, which are more than an order of magnitude longer than the longest proven chains so far, can be seen as a promising step towards the final goal of unraveling the «holy grail» of carbon allotropes, carbyne,» explains the lead author, Lei Shi.

Distances which are more than an order of magnitude longer than 10 mm presumably require convection or some other type of physical mixing.

Not exact matches

«Order - of - magnitude calculations suggest that implementing a low - amperage backup service appears to be more cost effective than having each homeowner buy a portable generator and storing diesel or gasoline for fueling, especially if a region is expected to suffer more frequent and longer widespread outages,» says Sunhee Baik, lead author and doctoral student in engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University.

«We have a path toward making a compact, robust clock that's better than CSACs by a couple of orders of magnitude, and more stable over longer periods of time.»

Besides, there are orders of magnitude more elastic collisions than inelastic, so in fact the lifetime of an excited CO2 molecule before an inelastic collision is much longer than the one nanosecond average time between elastic collision.

None of which actually matters, so long as you don't insist on filling the volume with a hard vacuum orders of magnitude more rarefied than even intergalactic space!