Sentences with phrase «surface area the size»

Indeed, when you hear what it can do, the gut sounds more like a superhero than an internal organ: with a surface area the size of a basketball court, it secretes acid strong enough to burn your skin!

The object, with a surface area the size of Russia, is so far away — currently about 3 billion miles, more than 30 times the distance between Earth and the sun — that even the best telescopes show Pluto as an indistinct disk with light and dark patches.

This thin layer covers a surface area the size of a tennis court — yet it's basically containing a sewer.

The human intestinal tract is 25 to 30 feet in length and covers a surface area the size of a tennis court.

A new material that is highly selective in capturing carbon dioxide and that has a surface area the size of a football field in just one teaspoonful has been designed by researchers at PNNL.

Activated carbon has a huge absorbing area - one gram of it has a surface area the size of two tennis courts.

Not exact matches

If the surface area were all that mattered, an animal's metabolism would increase as its size increased, at the rate q0 a M2 / 3 (two - thirds being the exponent in the surface are to volume relationship: S a V2 / 3), yet Kleiber's Law, instead, is obeyed even here, ie q0 aÊM3 / 4.

Other baking tray sizes, so long as they have the same surface area should be fine.

I had a big 5 lb bag of carrots and I roll - cut them into good sized bite size pieces which gave more surface area to get crisp and carmelize.

Pretty much any size works — just make sure it's pretty wide to get more bubbly golden - brown surface area.

He's big (6 ′ 3 ″) with v.large feet (size 11 — 12), so I'm thinking perhaps surface area has something to do with it?!

As these are jumbo - size wipes so even if you fold them in half you will have a plenty of surface area to wipe effectively having the hands clean in the same time.

Despite former Mayor Richard M. Daley's much - ballyhooed push for new parks and playgrounds, one - half of Chicago's 2.7 million people still live in community areas that fail to meet the city's own modest standard: For every 1,000 people, there should be 2 acres of open space, an area roughly the size of Soldier Field's entire playing surface.

It rolls on 4 wheels, with twin's front wheels which is swivel & because of the small size front wheels the maneuverability is very easy, you can take the stroller to narrow areas & the wheels can absorb some of the terrain & bumps but is it is not for extreme harsh surface like other stroller.

The fact that children are smaller in size means that their skin presents a large surface area relative to their body weight for absorption of environmental substances.»

The bigger the size of the can the better = less exposure, less surface area exposed to the powder itself.

They are jumbo - size wipes which means that your hands will always stay clean since you will have plenty of surface area to wipe effectively.

In particular, the standard surface area mimics the average size that both matches the nipple of mother and fits the size of several Playtex bottles.

The wheels are an ideal size for normal strolling both in urban areas and also on rough or soft surfaces.

The speakers feature the patented Plus One woofer cone that helps to maximize surface area while maintaining a compact size compatible with many factory OEM audio systems.

Smaller than a speck of dust and made up of a group of molecules, the nano - sized flower and petals provide a large surface area for immobilizing the highly active enzymes that are needed to detect the bacteria at low levels.

The combination of small size and relatively large surface area allows heat to dissipate quickly enough to protect the animals» neural tissue.

«MOFs» modularity, ultra-high surface areas, and large pore volumes, combined with the ability to control the pore surface functionality and pore size and shape, place MOFs as prospective candidates for energy - efficient and cost - effective humidity - control systems.»

«By moving aberration estimation and correction out to computation, we can create a compact device that gives us the same surface area as the lens we want without the size, weight, volume and cost,» said Cossairt, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Northwestern.

Further work needs to be done, too, in determining how best to deliver the treatment and in other areas, such as modifying the size and surface chemistry of the nanomedicine so that the body can accommodate it safely.

For the fluoride ion channel, the surface area that is covered by detergent compounds proved to be too much for crystal formation to occur, due to the channel's small size and almost complete embedment within the membrane.

Temperature, pressure, the material's surface area, the size of its pores and what elements are added all impact results, Barron said.

To increase the surface area surveyed, and quantify the largest pieces of plastic — objects that include discarded fishing nets several meters in size — a C - 130 Hercules aircraft was fitted with advanced sensors to collect multispectral imagery and 3D scans of the ocean garbage.

The scientists also ran a computer model to simulate the future of Greenland's surface temperature, grain size, exposed ice area and albedo.

But if you live in the tropics and are trying to avoid overheating, it should be better to have a smaller body size, which would give relatively more surface area through which to shed heat.

Ute Neugebauer, who works at Leibniz - IPHT and the University Hospital Jena points to tiny electrodes that are fixed on the surface of a stamp - sized chip: «Electric fields secure bacteria in a very small area.»

As expected, the simulations showed that the larger, 1 - km asteroid created the bigger splash, throwing 42 trillion kilograms of water and vapour — enough to fill 16 million Olympic - sized swimming pools — across an area more than 1000 kilometres wide and up to hundreds of kilometres above the Earth's surface.

In all of these applications, particle size is critical to the utility and function of oxide nanoparticles — decreased particles size results in increased surface area, which can significantly improve the performance of the oxide nanoparticle.

This nation has 3.9 million miles of public roads and counting; cumulatively, those road surfaces cover 1 percent of the land — an area equivalent in size to South Carolina.

«Nanomaterials, because of their size, are more bioavailable; and because of their surface area to mass, they are more chemically reactive.

Furthermore, the technique might open up new perspectives for material processing beyond the diffraction limit — for instance in order to remove nanometer - sized areas from a surface.

But if you turn the water in that beaker into microdroplets, you will get about 3,000 square meters of surface area — about the size of half a football field,» Zare said.

«As animals increase in size, the amount of body surface area per volume decreases — an ant has a lot of surface area and very little volume, and a blue whale is mostly volume with not much surface area» explains Labonte.

He saw that surface area wasn't everything: By extending a leaf's overall size while keeping living, energy - greedy matter to a minimum, the plant increases the odds that at least some of the splotchy sunlight will strike each leaf.

The silver lining is that a Dyson sphere the size of Earth's current orbit would give us about 500 million times more surface area to live on.

Using electron microscopy to look at thousands of ultrathin brain slices taken from awake and sleeping mice, they found that after sleep, the size of most synapses — specifically, the surface area where two neurons touch each other — shrank by about 18 percent.

Although ponds less than a quarter of an acre in size make up only 8.6 % of the surface area of the world's lakes and ponds, they account for 15.1 % of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and 40.6 % of diffusive methane (CH4) emissions.

Despite being cold enough to be covered in layers of sulphur dioxide frost, this large inner moon of Jupiter is the most volcanic world known, spitting out 100 times as much lava as all Earth's volcanoes can muster, from a surface area just 1 / 12th the size.

«For the first time we can show how cells sense size and what aspect of size they measure, such as volume, length, mass or surface area.»

Focusing the machine's full output into a spot of only 100 nanometers in size, the team generated an X-ray beam with intensity equivalent to all of the sun's radiation that is striking Earth's surface but concentrated in an area with the diameter of a human hair.

To concentrate the energy of laser light to an even finer area, the team patterned aluminum dots of various sizes, from tens of micrometers down to 30 nanometers, across the surface of silicon, silicon germanium alloy, gallium arsenide, gallium nitride, and sapphire.

Materials • Two «two - by - four» or similar size wood planks, about one half meter long works best • Small plastic tub with lid • Sand or another dense material to fill the tub • Water • Freezer • Books • Ruler • Protractor • A carpeted area or a rug that can get damp (or a protective covering, such as a large plastic trash bag) Preparation • Make sure that the pieces of wood have surfaces that are similar in roughness and are about the same length and width.

«The metal colloids are only a few nanometers in size, but their particular ratio of size to surface area produces a distinctive long - term effect.

But nearly 120 feet below the surface, an estimated 9,000 tons of material sits spread over an area the size of about 100 football fields.

The research team has analysed what the maximum size is for the cells, which must have a large surface area, if they are to work properly.