Sentences with phrase «of a millimeter thicker»

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 team also found structural variation on a minute scale throughout the eggshell, though it's only about a third of a millimeter thick.

While a chicken eggshell is only about a third of a millimeter thick, its nanoscale structure isn't consistent throughout.

With tiny, thin disks of plutonium — eight to 12 millimeters in diameter and 1 / 10th to 1/2 of a millimeter thick — housed in a target assembly, scientists and engineers from Los Alamos and Sandia direct immense electrical energy onto the target with the Z Machine.

The result is an ultra thin (a fraction of a millimeter thick) lithium ion battery.

To me the most fascinating new Bentley technique is a method of cutting stone — granite in the specific samples on display — into thin sheets a tiny fraction of a millimeter thick.

The T300 Chi, on the other hand, feels well balanced despite the tablet portion being just a few fractions of a millimeter thicker and ounces heavier than its keyboard base.

The sides of the two screens match closely and the combined «bezel» separating the screens is just a couple of millimeters thick.

The slim design isn't only in appearances as the device is just 7.8 thick, making it just a fraction of a millimeter thicker than the iPad mini.

The phone is slightly thicker than what you would find from Samsung's identically named phone, but it's only a fraction of a millimeter thicker anyway; something that becomes unnoticeable over time, and is in no way thick overall.

Not exact matches

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.

We were looking at an organic rock layer just millimeters thick that had lots of carbon, because we figured somewhere with a lot of carbon was a good place to look for life.

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

The new electrode grid, developed by a team of researchers at the University of California San Diego and Massachusetts General Hospital, is about a thousand times thinner — 6 micrometers versus several millimeters thick — than clinical electrode grids.

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.

In this week's Science Vukusic and his colleagues report that the bug's five - micrometer - thick scales were whiter than a child's baby tooth, which is encased in a millimeter - thick layer of white enamel.

He estimates that a 2 millimeter thick layer of these tar constituents, polymers called tholins, would absorb more than 99 % of the UV energy at the most - damaging wavelengths.

The human retina is a patch of nervous tissue in the back of the eyeball half a millimeter thick and approximately two centimeters across.

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

Co-sputtering is used for fabricating thousands of alloys simultaneously; alloy elements are mixed at various controlled ratios, yielding thousands of millimeter size and micron thick samples.

The suit, which leaves the arms and shoulders exposed but extends to the swimmer's ankles, features a series of polyurethane - based, millimeter - thick panels designed to reduce drag.

They exploit vibrations that can bounce between the upper and lower surfaces of the half - millimeter - thick chip beneath their qubit.

The section must have been about 30 microns thick — a micron is one thousandth of a millimeter — and at that level the minerals are essentially transparent.

The investigators optimized the image resolution and acquisition time to under five minutes by adopting a 1.5 millimeter - thick scintillator, which picks up gamma rays as they are emitted from within the body, and a 1 millimeter pin - hole collimator, which acts like an aperture to narrow focus on a particular field of view.

Faced with a U.S. Department of Defense charge to manipulate well - known materials in new ways, Alan Jacobsen, a research scientist at HRL Laboratories in California, constructed delicate lattices of polymer fibers less than a millimeter thick.

They've also been in discussion with battery manufacturers — traveling to China to meet with several of them — and have identified a technology that they think could yield a battery that fits in the space of a thumbnail, but is only half a millimeter thick.

While conventional tabletop microscopes shine light through the sample from above, the Shih lab's technology launches the light from the side of the slide, which is about one millimeter thick.

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

One component of their experimental device is a hollow aluminum cylinder, 30 centimeters tall and 10 centimeters in diameter, with walls 1 millimeter thick.

Along with more than a dozen helpers, the married couple applied 5,000 pounds of clay and germinating seed to the church's walls over a period of five days, creating a layer only millimeters thick.

SunPartner's Wysips (for «what you see is photovoltaic surface») film is 90 percent transparent, half a millimeter thick and uses a photovoltaic layer bonded to a network of microlenses.

The chip sits on the surface of the brain, while the electrodes delve midway into the brain's two - millimeter - thick cortex to eavesdrop on neurons that normally signal muscles to move.

To test their idea, the researchers compared two different silica covering designs: one a flat surface approximately 5 millimeters thick and the other a thinner layer covered with pyramids and micro-cones just a few microns (one - thousandth of a millimeter) thick in any dimension.

The cerebral cortex is the outer layer of brain tissue, a folded region about 2 - 4 millimeters thick, that is involved in many important aspects of brain function including sensory and cognitive processes.

The 20 - millimeter thick outermost layer, called the cerebral cortex (or gray matter), contains the centers of cognition and personality and the coordination of complicated movements.

The hexagonal 1.44 - meter diameter mirror is made of a 45 - millimeter - thick ClearCeram glass produced by the Japanese company OHARA and procured by TMT's Canadian partners.

While cautioning that the new radiation delivery system is still far from ready for use in people, Abraham notes that P32 gives off high energy that can penetrate through 5 millimeters of human tissue, making it a good candidate to tackle colon cancer since colon cancer cells can often form large, thick tumors into which drugs may not penetrate very well.

«LCD panels, which are only a few millimeters thick, contain over ten kinds of materials, making their disposal and recycling especially difficult,» Chien - Wei said.

The researchers made lenses about a few millimeters thick with a magnification power of 160 times and a resolution of about 4 microns (millionths of a meter)-- two times lower in optical resolution than many commercial microscopes, but more than three orders of magnitude lower in cost.

They are composed of bundled CNTs hundreds of microns thick and millimeters long.

The epidermis, the top most layer of skin, is only 0.1 to 1.5 millimeters thick.

You and I should have a carotid that's about 0.6 millimeters thick, be measured in 0.9 or 1.0 you have some advanced silent arterial damage and we should institute an investigation why and I plan to reverse it through all of the technologies that are out there.

Each monogrammed sterling silver necklace is a full millimeter thick and comes in your choice of size: X-Small, Small, Medium, Large or the new X-Large.

Inside, the Pacifica is unusually quiet, owing to the specification of thicker, five - millimeter glass for its windows.

«In the case of these materials, the additive is tiny flakes of a clay that are only a nanometer (one millionth of a millimeter) thick,» says Alan I. Taub, executive director of science for GM Research and Development.

Shut the car off, and it swivels — a surprisingly complex process requiring forty different moving parts and tolerances of less than half a millimeter — to show a clean expanse of wood veneer, part of the ten square meters of the 0.1 mm thick wood featured in the cabin as a whole.

The particularly exclusive 1.6 - millimeter thick semi-aniline premium leather meets the highest standards of both look and feel.

The kit comprises of new, thicker anti-roll bars and lowering springs in either 15 or 25 millimeters - depending on your preference.

The partition between the passenger compartment and boot of the BMW i8 consists of two layers of chemically hardened glass, each of which is just 0.7 millimeters thick, with acoustic sheeting sandwiched in between.

And the ability to reach farther into the midsection of the page lessened the disadvantage of working with such a deeply inset screen (Amazon says that the inset was necessary for its touch technology — but it's noticeably thicker, by millimeters, than the inset on the competing Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch and Kobo eReader Touch Edition).