Sentences with phrase «part of a millimetre»
That is little more than one tenth part of a millimetre on the scale we are considering, about the thickness of a hair.
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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).
[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.
Federal officials think they've found the perfect technology: cameras that take pictures in the millimetre - wave part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
The prey was just 18 - 20 millimetres long, whereas the salamander may have been 150 mm — although the fossil is only about 60 mm long because it is missing its head and parts of its tail and neck.
Some places, including parts of San Francisco itself, plus its airport and Foster City, were sinking by up to 10 millimetres a year.
«Our tide gauge station will become part of a network of stations along the coast of Sweden that will be able to monitor changes in the water level to millimetre precision well into the future,» says Gunnar Elgered, professor at Chalmers Department of Earth and Space Sciences.
The different parts of the spectrum, or spectral bands, are, in order of decreasing wavelength and increasing frequency: radio waves (including microwaves and (sub) millimetre radiation), infrared, visible, ultraviolet, X-rays and gamma rays.
Vented brake discs at all four corners measuring 360 millimetres in diameter at the front and 320 millimetres at the rear as well as grey brake callipers with «Mercedes - Benz» lettering are part of the standard equipment.
The installation is complemented with projections in several formats (70, 35 and 16 millimetre), in which the film equipment itself is exhibited and becomes part of the work.
The visible part of the spectrum is tiny, what is it, around a thousands of a millimetre?