Sentences with phrase «of a millimeter grain»

The pile - up of millimeter grains in a dust trap and the continuous distribution of small grains throughout the gap likely require a more efficient dust fragmentation and dust diffusion in the dust trap.

Not exact matches

If each solar system were the size of a grain of sand of one cubic millimeter, they would fill 100 000 one liter coke bottles.

We measured dust grains as large as around one micron (a thousandth of a millimeter), which is large for cosmic dust grains.

Johansen is also heartened by a recent discovery from ALMA, a submillimeter array of telescopes in Chile, of young planets sweeping clear paths through millimeter - sized dust grains in a protoplanetary disk no more than a million years old.

The tag comes in two lengths to accommodate differently sized fish: 100 and 77 millimeters, making the total length of the tag about 11 to 14 grains of long rice placed head - to - head.

PNNL's self - powered fish - tracking tag comes in two lengths to accommodate differently sized fish: 100 and 77 millimeters, or about 11 to 14 grains of long rice placed head - to - head.

Price's device was so responsive it could measure a disturbance a billionth the weight of a single grain of sand, but the researchers could find no deviation from Newton's laws of gravity with the reeds separated by a distance of only 0.108 millimeter (1/250 of an inch).

The size of the specimens he worked with might seem minuscule to an outsider — about 1 cubic millimeter, comparable in size to a coarse grain of sand — but to Agee, such a speck is a world in miniature.

The sensors, which the researchers have already shrunk to a 1 millimeter cube — about the size of a large grain of sand — contain a piezoelectric crystal that converts ultrasound vibrations from outside the body into electricity to power a tiny, on - board transistor that is in contact with a nerve or muscle fiber.

Astronomers have found that the outer region of a dusty disc encircling a brown dwarf star contains millimeter - sized solid grains.

And this time he'll be using the latest technology in a computerized micro-injector to deposit the adult stem cells from the patient to within 0.3 millimeters of the target area, roughly the length of a grain of table salt.

One must consider the various effects that alter the measured polarized signal, such as the shape of dust grains, the efficiency of grain alignment, the magnetic field properties, a... ▽ More (Sub --RRB- Millimeter observations of the polarized emission of aligned aspherical dust grains enable us to study the magnetic fields within protoplanetary disk.

Including this finer - grained detail largely did the trick, the authors report, correcting the dry bias of earlier models from a rainfall deficit of − 4.82 millimeters per day to − 1.37 millimeters per day.

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.