Sentences with phrase «of a millimetre in»

Closer examination of the exceptionally preserved ganglia revealed dozens of spindly fibres, each measuring about five thousandths of a millimetre in length.

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

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.

«When you consider that individual synapses are only around one thousandth of a millimetre in size, this was quite a Sisyphean task,» says Tobias Bonhoeffer, the Director of the department where the research was carried out.

They employed an advanced microscopic technique called in vivo two - photon imaging that allows the analysis of structures as small as a thousandth of a millimetre in the living brain.

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EM: Just think about the little fuel tank that has the hydrogen in it, that is 2 millimetre across, about the size of a peppercorn.

The driest month in terms of rainfall and rain days is January, which receives an average of 27.5 millimetres (1.08 in) over 4.6 days.

Dr. Julian Bailes, head of neurosurgery at the NorthShore University Health System in Chicago, told a Toronto news conference Wednesday the human brain is tethered but floating in about seven millimetres of cerebral spinal fluid.

McLaren Fernando Alonso 8 — Stoffel Vandoorne 1 Jenson Button 1 - Stoffel Vandoorne 0 Race: Alonso Stoffel Vandoorne finally got the better of Fernando Alonso in qualifying, despite Alonso's heroics of finishing quickest in Q1 and getting across the start / finish line to beat the chequered flag by millimetres.

The strength of compression is measured in millimetres of mercury (mm Hg).

First of all, the strength of compression is measured in millimetres of mercury — mm Hg.

Strength of compression is measured in mm Hg (millimetres of mercury).

The pressure of compression stockings is measured in mm Hg, or millimetres of mercury.

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The top number is systolic pressure, expressed in millimetres of mercury (mmHg).

The implant, made of genetically engineered cells, has been designed to detect developing breast, prostate and colon cancers when they are only a few millimetres in size.

Most of this plastic disintegrates into particles smaller than five millimetres, referred to as microplastics, and breaks down further into nanoparticles, which are less than 0.1 micrometre in size.

New, portable high - resolution 3D scanners being developed by Axel Pinz at the Graz University of Technology in Austria will capture the pitoti down to a resolution of one - tenth of a millimetre.

The particles of rock and ice in these belts vary in size from the tiniest dust grain, smaller than a millimetre across, up to asteroid - like bodies many kilometres in diameter [2].

Their results showed that a typical raindrop — roughly 2 millimetres wide and travelling at a few metres per second — compresses air in front of it a few microseconds before hitting a solid surface.

Mini-brains 3 to 4 millimetres across have been grown in the lab before, but if a larger brain had been created — and the press release publicising the claim said it was the size of a pencil eraser — that would be a major breakthrough.

Spatial discrimination fell by 0.25 millimetres for every square - centimetre increase in finger area (The Journal of Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1523 / jneurosci.3684 - 09.2009).

Donald Argus of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and colleagues used 15 years of GPS data to show that parts of the Ellsworth mountains in west Antarctica are rising by around 5 millimetres a year (Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1029 / 2011gl048025).

Measuring a few millimetres across, the pieces of intestinal tissue made by the month - long process contain all the cells and features found in normal gut tissue, and grow by the same route as in embryos.

This rod - shaped bacterium, Epulopiscium fishelsoni (pictured right), lives in the gut of surgeon fish in the Red Sea and is up to 0.7 millimetres long, hundreds of times longer than the E. coli in our guts, which is around 0.002 millimetres long.

When the floodwaters evaporated, the millimetre of silt left behind became the youngest stratum in a succession of sediment layers that is today about 1.5 kilometres thick.

The tiny organs measure about half a millimetre in diameter, with the «hump» of the ventricle rising up from the dish.

Nanowires are very small — about 2 micrometers high (1 micrometer is a thousandth of a millimetre) and 10 - 500 nanometers in diameter (1 nanometer is a thousandth of a micrometer).

Last week, the woman, who is in her 70s, had a patch of the cells measuring 1.3 × 3 millimetres grafted into her eye in a 2 - hour operation.

[2] The Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA), operated in part by ESO, observes in submillimetre and millimetre light and is ideal for the study of such very young stars in molecular clouds.

Kuhn says the equivalent in physical objects is the mechanical tolerances used in manufacturing — one side of an object might be specified as 300 ± 1 millimetres, for example.

They had been rising steadily by about 3 millimetres every year, but in the second half of 2010, they suddenly plummeted.

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.

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.

The French in turn poured scorn on the Spanish for using an archaic technology, and claimed that their drift nets, which have a mesh of 180 millimetres and, until the European Union's restrictions of 2.5 kilometres came into force, were on average 7 kilometres long, do not kill significant numbers of dolphins.

Although only about 3 millimetres thick, it is the largest organ in the human body and covers an area of 2 square metres.

The firearms rights people say that's going to be their best defence against police and their millimetre - wave camera; there won't be much point in searching for concealed guns when most of them are legal.

The «teats» are actually receptacles containing aluminium, gallium and arsenic; the «udders» are high - vacuum reaction chambers in which ultrathin layers of crystal are grown on circular wafers of gallium arsenide, 75 or 100 millimetres across.

In the police tests, the size of the flaws ranged up to 0.6 millimetres, and so the chance of a defect turning up at any horizontal position on an A4 sheet (which is 210 millimetres wide) is about 1 in 35In the police tests, the size of the flaws ranged up to 0.6 millimetres, and so the chance of a defect turning up at any horizontal position on an A4 sheet (which is 210 millimetres wide) is about 1 in 35in 350.

Federal officials think they've found the perfect technology: cameras that take pictures in the millimetre - wave part of the electromagnetic spectrum.

In the study, Professor Choi and her research team described the experimental demonstration of real - time radioactive material detection using a high - power pulsed millimetre - wave source.

The drum in one common printer mechanism, used by manufacturers such as Canon and Hewlett - Packard, is 94 millimetres in circumferencel, so the drum revolves about 3.2 times while printing a standard 297 - millimetre sheet of A4 paper.

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 suspensioIn 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 suspensioin suspension.

The pain ray's millimetre - wavelength microwaves are stopped by the water in 0.4 millimetres of skin, but they can penetrate clothing.

In comparison, global sea levels are rising by about 3 millimetres a year, and a recent study estimated that one - third of that comes from ice loss in Antarctica and GreenlanIn comparison, global sea levels are rising by about 3 millimetres a year, and a recent study estimated that one - third of that comes from ice loss in Antarctica and Greenlanin Antarctica and Greenland.

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.

Brain tissue is spread out over the table in neat 10 millimetre slices, like some kind of macabre deli counter.

In solid tumours larger than a few millimetres, there is usually a lack of both oxygen and nutrients due to insufficient blood vessel growth.

In the centre of your retina is a dense patch of photoreceptor cells about 1 millimetre across.

The researchers fixed a three centimetre long diamond strip, just 0.3 millimetre thick, in a specimen holder and triggered a shock wave with a brief flash from a powerful infrared laser that hit the narrow edge of the diamond; this pulse lasted 0.15 billionths of a second (150 picoseconds) and reached a power level of up to 12 trillion watts (12 terawatts) per square centimetre.