Sentences with phrase «much thinner sheets»

Now, experimental and theoretical physicists and a polymer scientist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have teamed up to use much thinner sheets than before to achieve this wrapping process.

Not exact matches

The Girl Scouts of the USA has been around for more than a century, but for much of the venerable institution's tenure, if you wanted to get your hands on a box of Thin Mints or Samoas, you had to cross your fingers for a door - to - door visit from a local troop or a sign - up sheet to be circulated through your office by a supportive parent.

This took two hours for me, but it would have taken much less time if I had spread it thinner on the baking sheet.

The loaf flattened out, to only about 1.5» deep — had I put the braid in a 9x9 Pyrex, rather than on my cookie sheet, I believe this would have allowed room for the braid to expand, but not so much as to spread out so thin.

There's no doubt Benitez's squad is thinner than a sheet or plastic wrap, and no matter how resilient that plastic wrap is, there comes a time when too much pressure and pulling causes the plastic to break.

However, while the pixels won't fade, the aluminium sheets are much thinner and more fragile than standard aluminium foil.

His study concluded that a thin sheet rapidly vibrating in a wavelike motion, much like a ray swimming near the seafloor, would stay aloft.

However, it's quite a different matter melting a long - lived massive ice sheet up to 1.5 km thick that covers over 70 % of the land surface (as happened at the end of the last glacial period), from melting isolated and much thinner ice caps / sheets that only cover about 11 % of the land surface (i.e. present - day).»

Much like the way tea flowing through a leaky mug pools under a tablecloth, so oxygen atoms flow out of a tiny cluster to pool under an extremely thin carbon sheet.

The report found that global ice sheets are melting at an increased rate; Arctic sea ice is thinning and melting much faster than recently projected, and future sea - level rise is now expected to be much higher than previously forecast.

You definitely don't want to add too much liquid, or the cookies will spread out on your cookie sheet like thin oat pancakes instead of thick, chewy cookies!

The sheet felt thinner and more flexible, so it stayed on with barely any wrinkles and did not slip off as much as the others did.

East Antarctica's ice sheet is about as thick as West Antarctica's, but the region sees much less snowfall, so the annual rings are wafer - thin or even indistinguishable.

Much talk surrounds the deterioration of glaciers and ice sheets — particularly, how they are thinning and losing mass with global warming; but the mechanisms are complicated and scientists want to...