Sentences with phrase «several orders of magnitude on»

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But with an airdrop, he added «almost 100 % of the source term -LSB-...] ends up on the land» — so a salted weapon blown up over a target would «be many, many orders of magnitude worse than the fallout produced by an underwater detonation» several miles from shore.

This infancy is also reflected in the relative size of each market — the WGC has put a value on all the gold that has ever been mined of $ 7.8 trillion, which is several orders of magnitude more than the $ 300 billion market capitalisation of all cryptocurrencies combined; while the market value of bitcoin alone is «just» $ 175 billion.

In the Science paper, the researchers derived a quantity related to the fault's slow onset, called the slip weakening distance, and found it to be several orders of magnitude higher that laboratory experiments on rock samples would predict.

Based on these results the researchers were able to explain why DMT1 binds the divalent metal ions iron and manganese (Fe2 + and Mn2 +), but not calcium (Ca2 +)-- in spite of the latter being several orders of magnitude more abundant.

The computational problems involved in interpreting genomic tests are several orders of magnitude more challenging that those posed by scanning a database of 4.4 million traditional records, says John Lutz, IBM's vice president of on - demand business.

The accuracy and the stability of optical clocks are mainly based on the fact that the frequency of the optical radiation used is higher (by several orders of magnitude) than that of the microwave radiation which is used in cesium atomic clocks, which makes optical clocks much more precise than cesium clocks.

That estimate was based in part on the fact that sea level is now rising 3.2 mm / yr (3.2 m / millennium)[57], an order of magnitude faster than the rate during the prior several thousand years, with rapid change of ice sheet mass balance over the past few decades [23] and Greenland and Antarctica now losing mass at accelerating rates [23]--[24].

What if the income in Washington is disproportionally larger (by several orders of magnitude in absolute terms, and by 2 × — 3 × on per annum basis) than that in Indiana?

The difference of more than two orders of magnitudes between sea level change on a human time scale and sea level change on a geological time scale is the result of several mechanisms affect sea level at different amplitudes and over different time periods.

In essence the conclusion was that the money spent to promote the AGW cause was several orders of magnitude bigger than that spent on scepticism.

That estimate was based in part on the fact that sea level is now rising 3.2 mm / yr (3.2 m / millennium)[57], an order of magnitude faster than the rate during the prior several thousand years, with rapid change of ice sheet mass balance over the past few decades [23] and Greenland and Antarctica now losing mass at accelerating rates [23]--[24].

On John Carters climate blog where the posts are so long, etymologists are working on a more extreme saying several orders of magnitude beyond «verbal diarrhea»On John Carters climate blog where the posts are so long, etymologists are working on a more extreme saying several orders of magnitude beyond «verbal diarrhea»on a more extreme saying several orders of magnitude beyond «verbal diarrhea».

In order to capture the magnitude, seasonality, and the OA physical and chemical properties, several global models now treat SOA as semi-volatile, based on an continuously increasing amount of experimental data on SOA formation in the atmosphere.

The huge industry dependent on fossil fuels has more to lose by several orders of magnitude than the renewable power business.

But bitcoin has shown, on several occasions, a persistent ability to defy detractors like me to grow an order of magnitude in less than 12 months; if it does so again, it will be three times larger than LTCM.

According to which «The long - term goal for Ethereum 2.0 and 3.0 is the protocol to quite literally be able to maintain a blockchain capable of processing VISA - scale transaction levels, or even several orders of magnitude higher, using a network consisting of nothing but a sufficiently large set of users running nodes on consumer laptops.»