Sentences with phrase «one's total mass»

This is a large amount of dust, but it makes up only a fraction of a dark halo's total mass of some 1000 billion solar masses.

They have about the same total mass, and we used to think they were near - twins.

The car's performance is thus enhanced thanks to a better power - to - weight ratio and reduced total mass, which means that CO2 emissions are also lower.

Still, point taken that while we still see diminishing returns as more and more dietary cholesterol is added, the initial increase on total mass of circulating cholesterol for small amounts of dietary cholesterol may not be as great as I initially thought it would be.

Annual net balance on eight North Cascades glaciers during the 1984 - 1994 period has been determined by measurement, of total mass loss from firn and ice melt and, of residual snow depth at the end of the summer season.

Total mass flux is better.

All of that magnifies the fact that the stretched and semistretched positions of every muscle are very important for total mass stimulation.

For example, Fliessbach et al. (2001) found in Switzerland up to 90 percent higher total mass of micro-organisms in organically managed soils.

New markers suggested include total mass of hemoglobin, altered expression of genes related to red blood cell metabolism, ironomics, storage lesions, and the presence of plasticizers from blood bags in athlete urine samples.

At an assumed total mass of both, at 140 kgs, that would be a lot of light.....

We measure a galaxy's total mass using the velocities of the stars it contains.

For most of the clusters in the new survey, the brighter ones had more mass in the way that was expected — if a cluster contains more stars it has greater total brightness and more total mass.

It now uses a «flow through» system, in which air exchange with the outside is allowed while sensors record the movement of moisture and gas, enabling accurate estimates of total mass exchange with the outside world.

«E. Myles Standish had used data from Voyager 2's 1989 flyby of Neptune, which had revised the planet's total mass downward by 0.5 % — an amount comparable to the mass of Mars — to recalculate its gravitational effect on Uranus.

The most important structural difference is their small total mass and relative looseness, which result from their comparatively large core radii.

The disk galaxy properties like total mass and central velocity dispersion also lie within a much narrower range than the black hole masses.

More extensive use of aluminum - including the first all - alloy doors on any Cadillac and lightweight front structural and suspension elements - not only helped trim total mass but also allowed CTS engineers to optimally position the remaining poundage in places that endow all versions of the car with a near 50/50 weight balance.

Thanks to a revised ECU unit and a new intercooler, the French sports model is able to achieve great performance and also a lower total mass.

Organically - farmed soils have significantly higher biological activity and a higher total mass of micro-organisms, making for more rapid nutrients recycling and improved soil structure.

Condensation reactions result in «condensed» polymers that have less total mass than the monomers used to create them and the by - products, or «condensates,» combined.

As a result, the coastal ice caps and glaciers lose their melting ice as run off 65 percent faster than they can recapture it — contributing to a loss of ice equivalent to roughly 14 percent of the total mass of Greenland.

That's a total mass of 215,500 kg.

That is followed by a no - growth phase in a mature forest where the total mass of living trees remains much the same from year to year at about 500 tons per hectare.

It has sold its rich birthright of meaning, fellowship, and joy for a potage of public exposure, and has become indistinguishable from other elements of television entertainment, simply another part of the total mass media environment to which modern people have become enslaved.

The sphere might be large or small, made of lead or of balsa wood, and these characteristics would influence some of its properties (whether it cast a large shadow or a small one, for instance), but insofar as gravitational interaction with an external object is concerned, only the total mass and the position of the center is important.

The brain represents only 2 % of the body's total mass, but contains 25 % of the total cholesterol.

SDC13 is a remarkable cloud network of four filaments converging on a central hub, with a total mass of gas equivalent to a thousand of our Suns.

In the standard model of cosmology, dark energy currently accounts for almost three - quarters of the total mass - energy of the universe.

Although few cosmologists seriously doubt that normal matter, made of particles called baryons, makes up only about 5 percent of the universe's total mass - energy budget, the observable matter we know of is still only about half what we'd expect.

The galaxies are ordered by total mass of stars (rising from bottom to top) and by «bulge to total stellar mass ratio» (rising from left to right).

Dust appears to lie in a belt that extends a few hundred million kilometres from Proxima Centauri and has a total mass of about one hundredth of the Earth's mass.

Throughout the 1970s, astronomers applied these laws to galaxies, hoping to extract a measure of their total mass.

The intensity of the distortion indicates the strength of the overall gravitational field, and hence the total mass, of the lensing cluster.

According to the data from DASI, it amounts to a mere 4.5 percent of the universe's total mass and energya number that accords well with an estimate made in 1998 based on the amount of the element deuterium produced during the big bang.

«This represents a tiny proportion of the embryo's total mass and as far as we can tell CGH has no impact on its ability to implant,» says Wells.

That suggests the Dragonfish is the brightest and most massive young cluster discovered so far, with a total mass of around 100,000 times the mass of the sun.

The total mass of the stars in the Milky Way is also close to this figure.

The best explanation is that almost 90 % of the total mass of the galaxy is an invisible substance, spread throughout the halo, called dark matter.

With a diameter of about 950 km, Ceres is by far the largest and most massive body in the asteroid belt, and contains approximately a third of the belt's total mass.

Dark energy contributes something like 70 percent of the total mass - energy content of the universe, various lines of evidence indicate.

Only fifty fragments, ranging in size from 1 - 10 cm, were collected, for a total mass of 4.5 kg.