Sentences with phrase «thinner than shells»

According to Dr. Will Howard of the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre in Hobart, shells of one species of foraminifera (Globigerina bulloides) are 30 to 35 percent thinner than shells formed prior to the industrial period.

Not exact matches

Few sights in sport are more stirring than eight rowers propelling a thin racing shell across the water.
A thin shell of hydrogen continues to burn, heating the star's atmosphere and causing it to expand into a so - called red giant, whose radius can be 1000 times larger than the original star's.
Three of these planets are confirmed to be super-Earths — planets more massive than Earth, but less massive than planets like Uranus or Neptune — that are within their star's habitable zone, a thin shell around a star in which water may be present in liquid form if conditions are right.
However, the discovery in 2015 of an oscillation in Enceladus's rotation known as a libration, which is linked to tidal effects, suggests that it has a global ocean and a much thinner ice shell than predicted, with a mean thickness of around 20 km.
Seen from above, our atmosphere is nothing more than a thin shell, enveloping life on Earth.
«Proportionally, the timber shell is much thinner than an eggshell,» Menges notes.
They were amazed to find that the shells, once dissolved in dilute acid, released intact thin sheets of shell proteins more than a centimeter across.
It is a very svelte 7.2mm - thick aluminum shell, which makes it 53 percent lighter and significantly thinner than the 4th generation iPad.
It's incredibly thin and 20 % lighter than the iPad thanks to its magnesium shell.
Most shell firms have fewer than three market makers and trading tends to be thin and concentrated among a relatively small shareholder base.
100 things you should know about DDT Experiments associating DDT with egg shell thinning involve doses much higher than... [Stickel, L. 1966.
As I posted above, this leads to the non-sensical result that one thick shell results in a totally different radiative balance than 10 thin shells.
GSMArena has just published a set of leaked pictures that show us the Galaxy Note 4 up close and it looks as though the device will be thinner and flatter than the Galaxy Note 3, as it features a harder - looking plastic rear shell compared to the Galaxy Note 3's pleather exterior and it's also completely eliminated the camera bump that we've seen in past Galaxy Note models.
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