Sentences with phrase «tenth of a millimeter in»

Those microscopic offspring — called veligers and as small as one - tenth of a millimeter in diameter — are covered with little hairs that help them catch currents and waves and «swim» to new locations during the first few weeks of their lives.

They are a mere seven tenths of a millimeter in length, and the volume of vaccine — a major contributor to pain — is minuscule.

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Because newborns have such tiny, delicate nasal passages (only about 2 to 3 millimeters, or one tenth of one inch, on each side), it takes very little change in that small space to cause big symptoms.

The species is a few tenths of a millimeter smaller than the previous minisnail record holder, a Chinese species called Angustopila dominikae that debuted a month ago in the same journal.

A tenth of a millimeter is relatively small, in contrast, although it's still big on a microscopic level.

This was no parasite but a rare view of the inside of a human stomach as it performed rhythmic peristalsis, crushing and churning solid foods into particles one tenth of an inch (2.5 millimeters) in diameter.

Except this time the titanium dioxide arrives in the form of nanotubes about 135 nanometers wide and a tenth of a millimeter long.

So where Zeebe hypothesizes his chemical equilibrium equations apply is in the layer one tenth of a millimeter deep.