Sentences with phrase «thousandths of a millimeter»

We measured dust grains as large as around one micron (a thousandth of a millimeter), which is large for cosmic dust grains.

It even captures the smallest particles with diameters of less than a hundred - thousandth of a millimeter.

In that year, physicist Steve Lamoreaux, now at Yale, managed to detect the feeble Casimir force on two small surfaces separated by a few thousandths of a millimeter.

In reality the cube is only six - thousandths of a millimeter wide.

This microscope is powerful enough to detect objects as small as a single micron — one - thousandth of a millimeter — and plaques are about 10 microns across.

To get a different view, astronomer Giovanna Tinetti and her colleagues at the European Space Agency and University College London focused instead on the light grazing the atmosphere of HD 189733 b. Tinetti had predicted that water would absorb more light at the longer wavelength of 5.8 microns (thousandths of a millimeter) than at 3.6 microns, in contrast with other molecules such as methane and ammonia.

The section must have been about 30 microns thick — a micron is one thousandth of a millimeter — and at that level the minerals are essentially transparent.

A microwave beam between the satellites gauges their distance with an accuracy of a few thousandths of a millimeter.

Single bacterial cells grow in about 2000 channels of a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter and can be individually studied in detail by the researchers in Prof. Erik van Nimwegen's group at the Biozentrum, University of Basel.

The largest of these particles are just microns (thousandths of a millimeter) across: All seven could fit in the period at the end of this sentence.

Also, femtosecond pulses are only about a thousandth of a millimeter long.

Secondary particles are smaller than one thousandth of a millimeter (so - called PM 1) and are largely deposited in the airways when inhaled.

To test their idea, the researchers compared two different silica covering designs: one a flat surface approximately 5 millimeters thick and the other a thinner layer covered with pyramids and micro-cones just a few microns (one - thousandth of a millimeter) thick in any dimension.

So how does each tiny cell pack a two - meter length of DNA into its nucleus, which is just one - thousandth of a millimeter across?

However, a typical E. coli is only 3 microns long (3 one - thousandths of a millimeter).

The air gap between them is just a few thousandths of a millimeter.

Not exact matches

The water levels rose by about 0.1 millimeters (or 4 thousandths of an inch) per year from the first century through the eighth century.