Sentences with phrase «of a millimetre»

The first couple of millimetres of pedal travel is dead but once you're into the operating range the pedal has a firmness and consistency that's better than any Elise I've tried previously and the ABS never triggers on the road.

The individual grains are only a thousandth of a millimetre in size and exhibit both ionic and electronic conductivity,» explains Dr. Mariya Ivanova from the Juelich Institute of Energy and Climate Research.

The tiny robots, which are a millionth of a millimetre in size, can be programmed to move and build molecular cargo, using a tiny robotic arm.

The crystals consist of silica beads several thousandths of a millimetre in diameter in a mixture of water and glycerine.

To emulate this in a gripper, the researchers used a thin sheet covered in protruding wedges one - tenth of a millimetre wide.

This walking technique improved in 100 bichir fishes that Standen and her colleagues reared in a tank filled with just a couple of millimetres of water.

But Sony can't seem to get away from sizeable upper and lower bezels, and even the side bezels are a couple of millimetres wide, so there's no «edge to edge» feel here.

The team at the ANU is now building a new version that will be able to analyse areas down to 10 thousandths of a millimetre across and will use ion beams of caesium as well as oxygen.

A detailed cross-section of a very young beech tree, which is only one hundredth of a millimetre thick, won the 1994 Nikon International Small World Competition last month.

The researchers used the new nano - scale technique of Transmission Kikuchi Diffraction to discover rims of the iron oxide mineral magnetite just a few ten thousandths of a millimetre thick around sulphide minerals inside the diamonds.

To identify the sponges, Maloof's team ground down a fist - sized lump of rock a fraction of a millimetre at a time, taking hundreds of images in the process to create a three - dimensional map of the fossil.

It weighs just 5 % less than the Apple tablet, boasts a scrap more screen estate and resolution, and is just a fifth of a millimetre thinner.

A blue laser makes the tiny dot visible, though it's only 215 billionths of a millimetre wide

It combines a mosaic of millimetre wavelength images from the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the IRAM 30 - metre telescope, shown in red, with a more familiar infrared view from the HAWK - I instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope, shown in blue.

Along with understanding how a spider turns a liquid blend of water - soluble proteins within its glands into an insoluble fibre emerging from a spinneret just a fraction of a millimetre away, Fossey also hopes that his team will discover if all the silks his spider produces start from the same proteins: «Some silks remain as sticky as glue, while others contract in the presence of water.

Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) occurs in response to retreating ice from the last glacial period, where around most of the world, land is subsiding at a fraction of a millimetre per year, compounding the problem of sea - level rise.

A couple of millimetres slimmer than the original Apple iPad at 10.5 mm thick, it weighs 394g and takes up just 190x124mm of pocket or bag space.

These are pared - down dimensions, and it's no wonder that the camera lens protrudes a couple of millimetres from the back of the chassis as a result.

The nets that they use can not capture plastic particles that are smaller than one - third of a millimetre across.

Penny found that the lengths of all the sides of all the triangles were a whole number of millimetres.

It turns out the human body gives off a lot of millimetre - wave radiation.

The certification problem gets still more complicated because there are two types of millimetre - wave systems: passive systems pick up the millimetre waves our bodies reflect from the environment; active millimetre - wave machines use arrays of antennas to project a stronger beam at the subject.

This experiment detects radiation of millimetre and submillimetre wavelengths, a different range from COBE, providing further evidence that the ripples are primordial, and are not just background emission from our own Galaxy (see Figure 3).

Two prototype antennas for the world's largest array of millimetre - wave telescopes have passed a key test, working together to track and image Saturn for more than an hour on 2 March.

The zinc alloy diffuses into the surface to a depth of around an eighth of a millimetre, changing the composition and reducing the melting point of the parent alloy.

With the methods used, it is now possible to study not only ore particles on the ocean floor in the range of millimetre to nanometre, but also the smallest fossils and living organisms, such as micro-organisms.

«It's very hard to imagine a solid surface that is smooth on the order of millimetres,» Wye told New Scientist.

Pierre Cox is well known scientifically in the area of millimetre and infrared observations of star - forming regions, evolved stars and high - redshift galaxies, and has published over 200 papers with more than 10 000 citations in total.

Synchrotron X-rays penetrate tens of millimetres into a sample where the behaviour of cracks can be very different - this in contrast to eectron microscopy which only reveals the surface features of micro-cracks.

It consists of a millimetre - wave radar and monocular camera mounted on the upper, inside part of the windshield.

Despite being a couple of millimetres too wide to be held comfortably across the centre for prolonged periods, you can at least do so.

«The huge advantage of millimetre wave is access to new spectrum because the existing cellphone spectrum is overcrowded.

Beneath that is a new keyboard that sports ever so slightly larger keys thanks to the couple of millimetres extra width that the phone as gained.

That is little more than one tenth part of a millimetre on the scale we are considering, about the thickness of a hair.

The authors present the study as a test of Europe's earth observation satellite Sentinel - 1 and its ability to deliver radar measurements to accuracies of millimetres.

On the back, the vertically - mounted dual cameras are prominent, mounted in an island a couple of millimetres proud of the back glass of the phone.

This means it would jut out a couple of millimetres more than in the previous model.

The Moto Z Force is thicker at 7 mm and a little taller, but only by a faction of a millimetre giving space for more battery.

As a direct comparison to a more similar device, the P2 is less than 1 mm thicker than a OnePlus 3T, just over 1 mm wider and a fraction of a millimetre taller.

1 Seeds: Time Capsules of Life by Rob Kesseler and Wolfgang Stuppy (Firefly Books, 2006) The images in this book are astounding, thanks to the latest in microphotography; full - page close - ups of millimetre - long seeds possess an almost alien beauty.

One nanometre (nm) is one millionth of a millimetre.

In the terrestrial dust devils, the team found that around 60 - 70 % of all the fine dust particles (with diameters up to three hundredths of a millimetre) appear to stay in suspension.

The increase in snow means that global sea level has risen very slightly less — just a fifth of a millimetre — than it would have otherwise.

In this way, the researchers were able to determine that the distance between the two iodine atoms on the benzene ring was 800 picometres (800 billionths of a millimetre), which is in good agreement with the actual value of 700 picometres known from theory.

It combines a mosaic of millimetre - wavelength images from the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the IRAM 30 - metre telescope, shown in red, with a more familiar infrared view from the HAWK - I instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope, shown in blue.

Considering the whole reason behind having a smaller screened phone is, presumably, to have a smaller device, it's a little confusing that Google has made a phone which is only a couple of millimetres away from being the same length as a BlackBerry KeyOne; a phone with a physical keyboard built in.