Sentences with phrase «of a millimeter make»

But those fractions of a millimeter make a difference.

Not exact matches

The new prototypes, made by scientists at the University of California at Berkeley, are each roughly 3 millimeters long, 1 millimeter high and 4/5 of a millimeter thick.

The watch I spent time with was a size 38 — Apple will sell two sizes, 38 millimeters and 42 millimeters — with the leather strap made of the same thin, flat material used in Apple's leather iPad cases.

To build nationwide 5G, they either have to kick current customers off LTE, which would take years, or use a type of spectrum (millimeter wave) that can only carry a signal 2,000 feet from a cell site — versus multiple miles for other spectrum — making it nearly impossible for either of them to create a truly nationwide 5G network quickly.

He makes wire cages 18 to 20 inches in diameter and about five feet high, and then wraps the bottom half of the cage with 6 - millimeter clear polyethylene.

Twelve medals, each made of 197 grams of silver, 2.99 inches in diameter, 5.9 millimeters thick, worth $ 28 apiece on the silver market.

The shafts are made of smooth domestic hard - rock maple, easily turned to a desired diameter (10 - 13 millimeters) to fit a customer's grip.

It's made of four millimeter thin acrylic glass and ultra-bright LED lights, shaped into an incredible looking 3D design!

It is 10 millimeters wide and 24 inches long, making it a little thicker than most of the other necklaces on this list.

Since it's so important, we're making note of the total millimeter width of every chain we review.

In the experiments reported in Science, dark gray material samples made of the elements bismuth and selenium — each a few millimeters long and of different thicknesses — were hit with «THz» light beams that are invisible to the unaided eye.

The scope's light - collecting capacity — made possible with almost 800 mirror segments just 50 millimeters thick — will allowastronomers to detect Earth - like planets around other stars, measure the properties of the universe's first stars and galaxies, and probe the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, made up of leading climate scientists, sea levels have risen some 3.1 millimeters per year since 1993.

They also made a branching pattern of arteries with walls less than one millimeter thick.

Adult males of the B. micra species grow to only just over a half - inch (16 millimeters) from nose to bottom, making them one of the smallest vertebrates ever found on Earth.

«We made a macroscale version of this system, at the scale of several millimeters, to see if it worked,» Shepard notes.

Making Mutant Beach Hoppers: Beach hopper embryos (top), half a millimeter across, are lined up and prepared for an injection by Erin Jarvis, a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley.

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.

PICKY MIRROR A mirror made of copper wire embedded in plastic (left) reflects microwaves with a wavelength of about 60 millimeters.

The trunk, made mostly of slender dead cells each a few millimeters long, can reach heights of 100 meters.

But Stanford University neuroscientist Sergiu Paşca has crafted a method for making and maintaining 4 - millimeter - wide balls of human cortex — like tissue (he calls them spheroids) in 3 - D culture for an extended time.

About a millimeter in overall size, the droplets are produced individually, their shapes maintained by a surrounding springy material made of polymers.

The 2 - millimeter - by -2-millimeter devices (pictured) are made up of a film of polymers that detects chemicals in its environment.

Last August, physicists in Switzerland successfully teleported information 6 millimeters between two corners of a superconducting chip made from niobium, sapphire and aluminum; the superconducting chip is the basic building block for a quantum computer.

The highest priority, according to a blue - ribbon panel that made the recommendations, is to buy 5 % stakes in the international Next Generation Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array project in Chile, at a total cost of $ 90 million.

The target in MagLIF is a tiny cylinder about 7 millimeters in diameter; it's made of beryllium and filled with deuterium and tritium.

The combination of the physical size, the optimal design for millimeter wavelengths, and the high altitude makes the LMT unique.

Now imagine taking a sharp knife and making cuts parallel to the surface, at a depth of two or three millimeters, and extracting a thin fillet of brain.

I was presenting a paper on the future of observational cosmology at sub-millimeter and millimeter wavelengths and talking about the need to develop new and larger facilities to make significant advances in some of the fundamental questions related to the formation and evolution of structure.

Shaping nanometric gold particles — of the size of millionths of a millimeter — to improve their properties in biomedicine and photonics has been made possible thanks to a special laser system in a work carried out at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) and now published in Science.

These meteorites are made of a mixture of solid chondrules, millimeter - sized beads (the approximate width of a penny) that became embedded in a fluffy matrix.

The 1 - 3 millimeter granuloma also contains fibrous and necrotic tissue as well as a number of other types of immune cells, making it an extremely complex structure.

Mapping the structure of the human brain is a daunting task: Billions of cells make vast numbers of connections, and tracing these tangled fibers is so labor - intensive that analyzing just one square millimeter of tissue takes years.

Mutations that make millimeter - long transparent worms known as Caenorhabditis elegans live longer also extend the proportion of their lives the worms spend being frail, Heidi Tissenbaum of the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester and colleagues reported last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Every few days they take another look at the same patch of visual cortex of a living mouse (0.5 millimeter square), observing which neurons remain in close contact and noticing where a cell has pulled back from its old neighbors to make new contacts.

Observations of two galaxies made with the National Science Foundation - funded Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope suggest that large galaxies formed faster than scientists had previously thought.

In the case of ants, he must collect about 20 specimens, sit down at a microscope, and make 15 measurements on each one, where differences of a millimeter are crucial.

The hall is made out of 243 geometrically unique plates of 50 - millimeter - thick beech plywood designed and cut using robotics.

The 0.4 - inch - long (10 millimeters) arachnid was discovered decades ago, but no one could make much of it, because the front half of the fossil is buried in rock.

When a bird tucked its head onto its pillowy back and shut its eyes, the center of pressure made smaller adjustments (within a radius of 3.2 millimeters on average, compared with 5.1 millimeters when active).

On the same chip, the researchers have placed an artificial atom, which is 0.01 millimeters long and made of a superconducting material.

Mirkin's team used the technique, reported online this month in Nature Communications, to make working electrical devices including inductors, capacitors, and surface acoustic wave transducers, and even drew a 9 - millimeter - square map of the world.

Of course, that water does not truly disappear; much of it ends up in the ocean, where it makes up about one - fourth of the annual 3.1 - millimeter rise in sea leveOf course, that water does not truly disappear; much of it ends up in the ocean, where it makes up about one - fourth of the annual 3.1 - millimeter rise in sea leveof it ends up in the ocean, where it makes up about one - fourth of the annual 3.1 - millimeter rise in sea leveof the annual 3.1 - millimeter rise in sea level.

It depends on collecting information over a long period of time, and thanks to VLBI, we also know that the world is constantly expanding and contracting and wobbling in amounts that make five millimeters look like... well, like five millimeters.

The researchers also made a claw shape by sticking together eight 5 - by - 1 millimeter ribbons of flash - treated graphene oxide in a star shape.

Either this five - millimeters thing was as ludicrous as it sounded and I could make merciless fun of everyone involved, some of whom, doubtless, would have mustaches.

Hedges announced that the wormholes he measured in the Gospel of Luke were 1.3 millimeters in diameter, suggesting that they were made by Anobium punctatum, a northern European beetle.

Because existing phenomena — such as thermal expansion of water from warming — do not fully explain the corrected sea - level - rise number of 3.3 millimeters, stored heat in the deep ocean may be making a significant contribution, Cazenave said.

The 10 - millimeter long robot is made up of four layers: tissue composed of live heart cells, two distinct types of specialized biomaterials for structural support, and flexible electrodes.

This image combines a total of 296 separate individual data sets from the ALMA and IRAM telescopes, making it one of the largest high - resolution mosaics of a star formation region produced so far at millimeter wavelengths.