Sentences with phrase «thicker than the air»

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At 1.76 pounds, it's almost half the weight of a 13 - inch MacBook Air, and it's just a tad bit thicker than the iPad Air.

The MSI X340 notebook PC weighs in at just under the MacBook Air's 3 pounds and is barely more than three - quarters of an inch thick.

With its layers of moist, dark chocolate sponge, thick salted caramel filling and lashings of lighter - than - air salted caramel Swiss meringue buttercream, it's a hedonist's fantasy.

Keep in mind that the signal will travel through open air with far greater ease than it can travel though thick floors or walls.

But it also had numerous theropodlike characteristics, from the air spaces in its vertebrae to its stocky arms (although they ended in thick, short fingers rather than sharp claws).

That heated surface air then rose into the atmospheric boundary layer — the lowest level of the troposphere — doubling its height to more than 4 kilometers, and creating a thick blanket of heat.

The fact that amorphous metal is thick and like plastic when molten permits the formation of a foam panel that is 99 percent air but roughly 100 times stronger than polystyrene.

The coat radiates more heat to the cold sky than it absorbs from its surroundings, the team reports, causing the temperature to drop below that of the surrounding air, while thick insulation reduces body heat loss from the skin.

In the simulations that included smoke - filled air, storm clouds were lower and thicker (and average wind speeds at 1 kilometer above ground were higher) than they were in the no - smoke models, the team reported online ahead of print in Geophysical Research Letters.

The reason being that wearing multiple thin layers will keep you warmer than just one single thick layer; as a result, the warm body heat air...

As a result, it ended up with a spec sheet at once thick and thin: a curb weight of less than 1200 pounds; an air - cooled, horizontally opposed two - cylinder engine of just 375 - cc displacement; front - wheel drive; independent suspension, rack - and - pinion steering, and almost no creature comforts.

It's 7.7 mm thick and is 5g lighter than an iPad Air 2.

The iPad Air 2 managed to shave off 18 % off the thickness from the first generation Air; it's now an almost impossible 6.1 mm thick, and 1.4 mm slimmer than the original iPad Air.

For those who feast on numbers, the Xperia Tablet Z2 is only 6.4 mm thick, which is 0.5 mm less than the Xperia tablet Z. Further, the Tablet Z2 tips the scales at just 426 grams, which again is 69 gram less than the Tablet Z. For comparison's sake, the new iPad Air measures 7.5 mm and weighs 469 grams.

It is 6.9 mm thick, a bit thicker than the 6.1 mm iPad Air and weighs 1.57 lb.

Measuring 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.3 inches and weighing 13.2 ounces, the HDX is shorter and lighter than the iPad Air 2, but 0.06 inches thicker than Apple's tablet.

Apple's iPad Air 2 is less than half the weight at 437g and just 6.1 mm thick, while the Google Nexus 9 is even lighter at 425g and is over a millimetre slimmer.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 is 0.26 inches thick, but at 9.73 x 7 x 0.26 inches and 1.02 pounds, it is larger and heavier than the Fire HDX 8.9 or the iPad Air 2.

At 6.4 mm in thickness, it is thinner than the 7.3 mm Samsung Galaxy Tab PRO 10.1, thinner than the 7.5 mm iPad Air, thinner then the 7.8 mm Kindle Fire HDX 8.9, and definitely thinner than the 8.9 mm thick Microsoft Surface 2 or the 13.5 mm thick brick of a tablet, Microsoft Surface 2 Pro.

Starting at $ 329 and featuring the A9 processor, the new model is slightly thicker than the iPad Air 2 and lacks its antireflective coating, but is otherwise identical.

The Galaxy Tab S2 follows on from last year's Tab S in being a high - resolution tablet, but while Samsung manages to put in a similar - sized 9.7 - inch AMOLED display to the iPad Air 2 with a 2048x1536 resolution, along with an eight - inch variant, Samsung has also made it 5.6 mm thick, thinner than the Air 2 by half a millimeter.

Coming in at 2.38 pounds, the Apple Macbook Air 11 - inch is only slightly thicker (11.8 x 7.56 x 0.11 - 0.68 inches) than the Dell with its keyboard dock.

Apple has announced its fifth - generation iPad, previously known as the iPad 5 but now called the iPad Air, and it boasts an even faster processor than ever before.The bezel is now 43 per cent thinner and the iPad Air is now 7.5 mm thick instead of 9.4 mm... Read more

At 9.2 mm thick, it's thicker than pretty much every other tablet out there including the iPad Air (7.2), iPad mini with Retina (7.5), Nexus 7 2013 (8.7), and the Kindle Fire HDX (7.9).

When snapped into the keyboard case, the X313 - M becomes only 0.15 inches thicker but weighs 3.1 pounds, significantly more than the Surface Pro 2 with its 0.55 - pound Type Cover attached, as well as many full - fledged 11.6 - inch notebooks, including the Macbook Air 11 (2.8 pounds) and Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 11s (3 pounds).

The original iPad Air is 1.4 mm thicker than the iPad Air 2.

The bezel, or unused space around the 10.1 - inch screen, is thicker than the iPad Air and newer tablets, but not annoyingly so.

At a mere half - inch thick, the iPad is also thinner than most laptops, including Apple's super-thin Macbook Air.

At 9.58 x 7.69 x 0.24 to 1.25 inches and weighing 1.32 pounds, the Venue 10 7000 (sans keyboard) is thicker, but lighter than the Microsoft Surface 3 (10.52 x 7.36 x 0.24 inches and 1.37 pounds) and the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 (9.73 x 6.98 x 0.26 inches and 1.4 pounds), but larger and heavier than the iPad Air 2 (9.4 x 6.6 x 2.4 inches and 0.98 pounds).

As a tablet, the Surface 3 is still bigger, heavier, and thicker than the iPad Air 2, but you're also getting a whole lot more.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 will supposedly boast a metal frame, claims the report, and be thinner than iPad Air 2 which is 6.1 mm thick.

Thick ash started shooting thousands of meters into the air above Mount Agung on Saturday, driving east and southeast along the archipelago, forcing more than 29,000 people to evacuate from their homes, the Bali Provincial Board for Disaster Relief said, revising their initial estimate.

WOLO Bukit Bintang is a luxury, three - star boutique newcomer to Kuala Lumpurs hotel landscape, located in the thick of things on the corner along Jalan Bukit Bintang and Jalan Sultan Ismail.Surrounded by more than eight major city malls (including Lot 10 next door and Pavilion KL, Starhill Gallery and Fahrenheit 88, which are about one km away), it is a great option for retail enthusiasts.When it comes to sightseeing the hotel could not be more conveniently located - less than a 20 - minute walk from the hotel is the PETRONAS Twin Towers and KLCC Park.When it comes to bedding down in the 140 - room WOLO Bukit Bintang, guests will be delighted to know that each air - conditioned unit is dressed up in chic style with lots of blonde wood furnishings.

due to co2 we are already living in a greenhouse.Whatever one does in that greenhouse will remain in the greenhouse.INDUSTRIOUS HEAT will remain in the greenhouse instead of escaping into outer space; this is a far greater contributor to global warming than other factors and far more difficult to reduce without reducing economic activity.Like warm moist air from your mouth on cold mornings so melting antarctic ice will turn into cloud as it meets warm moist air from tropics the seas will not rise as antarctica is a huge cloud generator.A thick band of cloud around the earth will produce even temps accross the whole earth causing the wind to moderate even stop.WE should be preparing for this possible scenario»

Cold air outbreaks even more severe than occurred this winter affected the United States in the early 1960s, the late 1970s (most notably 1977), and in 1983, back when the Arctic sea ice was thicker and more extensive than it is today.

Temperature tends to respond so that, depending on optical properties, LW emission will tend to reduce the vertical differential heating by cooling warmer parts more than cooler parts (for the surface and atmosphere); also (not significant within the atmosphere and ocean in general, but significant at the interface betwen the surface and the air, and also significant (in part due to the small heat fluxes involved, viscosity in the crust and somewhat in the mantle (where there are thick boundary layers with superadiabatic lapse rates) and thermal conductivity of the core) in parts of the Earth's interior) temperature changes will cause conduction / diffusion of heat that partly balances the differential heating.

http://phys.org/news/2016-05-early-earth-air-today-atmosphere.html Early Earth's air weighed less than half of today's atmosphere The idea that the young Earth had a thicker atmosphere turns out to be wrong.

And we're somehow supposed to believe that CO2 can heat the Earth because «science shows by experiment»..., or some out of context laws brought into «scientific truth», so CO2 «well mixed by Brownian motion», and though heavier than air in real life, «it accumulates into a thick blanket for hundreds and thousands of years reflecting thermal IR back at us»..

Measuring in at 13.1 mm thick, the MacBook is 24 percent thinner than the MacBook Air, and it weighs just two pounds, lighter than both the 2.38 pound 11 - inch MacBook Air and the 2.96 pound 13 - inch MacBook Air.

That's the same «thinness» and weight as the original iPad Air, and 0.05 inches (1.4 mm) thicker and 0.07 pounds (9 grams) heavier than the iPad Air 2 or 9.7 - inch iPad Pro.

It also has the same luxurious metal unibody as the rest of Apple's iPad range, though notably it's ever - so - slightly thicker than the iPad Air 2 or iPad Pro 9.7 at 7.5 mm.

Like the original iPad Air, the 6th - generation iPad is about 1.4 mm thicker and about an ounce heavier than the iPad Air 2.

Weighing 15.2 ounces and measuring 0.2 inches thick, the Asus ZenPad 3S 10 is heavier than the Huawei MediaPad M3 (11.4 ounces, 0.3 inches) and the LG G Pad F 8.0 (12.3 ounces, 0.4 inches), and similar in size and weight to the Apple iPad Air 2 (15.7 ounces, 0.2 inches).

Schematic reveals iPad Air 3 will be slightly thicker than iPad Air 2 http://www.cultofmac.com/410091/schematic-reveals-ipad-air-3-will-be-slightly-thicker-than-ipad-air-2/

Samsung has launched the Galaxy Tab S2, a new Android tablet that's available in two sizes and is only 5.6 mm thick — that's 0.6 mm less than Apple's iPad Air 2.

The device is just slightly thicker than the current iPad Mini, and its screen size puts it right in between the iPad Air and Mini.

Specifically, the new tablet will be 0.05 mm thicker and 0.1 mm wider than the iPad Air 2.

The only drawback of the new iPad in comparison with its predecessor is that it is thicker than the iPad Air 2.

iPad Air 2 sports an ultra-thin design, which at 6.1 mm thick is 18 % thinner than the original iPad Air.

Starting at $ 329 and featuring the A9 processor, the new model is slightly thicker than the iPad Air 2 and lacks its antireflective coating, but is otherwise identical.