Sentences with phrase «much small surface area»

The bounds in West Antarctica (loss of between 128 and 103 Gt / yr) reflect a much smaller GIA uncertainty together with a much small surface area.

A private Cloud solution, on the other hand, means you get to choose your own stack, to harden it as much as you want, and to tune it to expose a much smaller surface area to potential attackers.

Not exact matches

For the fluoride ion channel, the surface area that is covered by detergent compounds proved to be too much for crystal formation to occur, due to the channel's small size and almost complete embedment within the membrane.

Did some boxes have a much smaller surface - area - to - volume ratio than others?

This is a small fraction of the landscape — much less than 1 percent of the surface area of the northern hemisphere.

Smaller, dispersed droplets are less threatening for two reasons: they present more surface area to the water, so ocean bacteria can degrade the oil faster; plus, the small droplets are much slower to rise to the surface, keeping the oil at sea instead of in coastal wetlands and giving the bacteria more time to do their magic.

Smaller particles have a relatively larger surface area, compared with their volume, making them much more chemically reactive.

It's much less likely that a macrophage would latch onto the pointed end of an elongated particle because the ends are such a small proportion of the particle's total surface area, he adds.

The general idea is that you create a box that is parked in the exhaust stream that exposes as much surface area of the catalyst as possible, while keeping the amount of the catalyst small as they are very expensive.

One area that has attracted much attention in the last several years is a stratum of shale called the Marcellus, which was discovered 150 years ago and named for a small town in New York state where the layer of shale had, after a series of geological upheavals, been wrenched to the surface.

Roughly 10 times the amount of oil than has been spilled in the Gulf of Mexico so far was released into a much smaller body of water (the Persian Gulf is less than 1 / 6th the size of the Gulf of Mexico by surface area and has an average depth of only 160 feet and a maximum depth of a mere 300 feet vs. a maximum depth in the Gulf of Mexico of 14,383 feet).

The North Atlantic is about 5 % of the Earth's surface, and so direct measurements of that small an area aren't going to say much at all about the rest of the planet.

2) The ESS value obtained would (ignoring the more complex first point) perhaps be applicable to a glacial - interglacial transition, but decidedly not to an interglacial - «hyperinterglacial» transition, where the ice - albedo feedback would of course be much smaller because of the much smaller ice - covered surface area.

It has the greatest global coverage: With 96 percent coverage of the globe (except for small areas around the north and south poles), the satellite sensors cover more than twice as much of Earth's surface as do thermometers.

According to Scott Kennedy of Cornerstone, a Vancouver architecture firm Passive House makes a lot of economic sense; in multiple family building the ratio of surface area (the expensive part in Passive) is much smaller so the costs are only about four percent higher than conventional construction.

The trouble is, the smaller a building, the harder it is to hit those numbers because there's so much more surface area per square foot of floor.

That's why Samsung's phones are so small for their screen sizes; they use capacitive buttons on small bezels, so as much surface area as possible is devoted to the screen.