Sentences with phrase «ups of millimetre»

1 Seeds: Time Capsules of Life by Rob Kesseler and Wolfgang Stuppy (Firefly Books, 2006) The images in this book are astounding, thanks to the latest in microphotography; full - page close - ups of millimetre - long seeds possess an almost alien beauty.

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To address this need, Bosch Packaging Technology has designed a new version of the proven SVE 2520 DZ (Doy Zip) Vertical Form Fill and Seal (VFFS) machine, which is adaptable to larger formats, up to 320 millimetres high — the SVE 3220 DZ.

The particles of rock and ice in these belts vary in size from the tiniest dust grain, smaller than a millimetre across, up to asteroid - like bodies many kilometres in diameter [2].

This rod - shaped bacterium, Epulopiscium fishelsoni (pictured right), lives in the gut of surgeon fish in the Red Sea and is up to 0.7 millimetres long, hundreds of times longer than the E. coli in our guts, which is around 0.002 millimetres long.

The tiny organs measure about half a millimetre in diameter, with the «hump» of the ventricle rising up from the dish.

In the police tests, the size of the flaws ranged up to 0.6 millimetres, and so the chance of a defect turning up at any horizontal position on an A4 sheet (which is 210 millimetres wide) is about 1 in 350.

In the terrestrial dust devils, the team found that around 60 - 70 % of all the fine dust particles (with diameters up to three hundredths of a millimetre) appear to stay in suspension.

The researchers fixed a three centimetre long diamond strip, just 0.3 millimetre thick, in a specimen holder and triggered a shock wave with a brief flash from a powerful infrared laser that hit the narrow edge of the diamond; this pulse lasted 0.15 billionths of a second (150 picoseconds) and reached a power level of up to 12 trillion watts (12 terawatts) per square centimetre.

The certification problem gets still more complicated because there are two types of millimetre - wave systems: passive systems pick up the millimetre waves our bodies reflect from the environment; active millimetre - wave machines use arrays of antennas to project a stronger beam at the subject.

The coasts of Essex and Kent are sinking, relative to sea level, by up to 5 millimetres a year.

The trees, Glossopteris seed ferns, had annual growth rings up to 11.38 millimetres thick which show no signs of hard freezes during the growing period or of the extreme temperatures — averaging between -30 °C and -40 °C in winter and 0 °C in summer — predicted by computer (Science, vol 257, p 1675).

Some places, including parts of San Francisco itself, plus its airport and Foster City, were sinking by up to 10 millimetres a year.

In their latest incarnation, catoms are millimetre - sized curled - up strips of conducting material that respond to remotely controlled electrostatic forces.

Still, Feedback must admit that at $ 10 a pair, the millimetre closer to space you would be while wearing them still delivers a better rate of return than any investment you might have made in a space tourism start - up.

The identified structure supports the hypothesis that the bulk of the disc ice reservoir is hosted primarily on the larger (up to millimetre - sized) dust grains, residing in the inner 50 au, which have become decoupled from the gas, and drifted radially inwards towards the star.

They include mostly single - celled microfossils ranging from a few micrometres (one - millionth of a metre) to one millimetre in size, and each is made up of a sac of organic tissue (vesicle).

The up to one millimetre long crustaceans form about eighty per cent of the zooplankton and are an important food for fish and their larvae.

Oikopleura dioica is the name of this organism with a body that resembles a tadpole and is up to one millimetre long.

Likewise, the figures for headroom (rear: up to 1027 millimetres) and shoulder room (front 1530 millimetres, rear up to 1514 millimetres) take the levels of space and comfort aboard the Mercedes - Benz R - Class into a new dimension.

Massive 355 - millimetre vented discs up front with four - piston aluminum Brembo calipers plus 300 - mm vented discs and dual - piston calipers in the rear repeatedly hauled the car down without a hint of brake fade.

With a silhouette similar to that of the E-Class Coupe, the E-Class Cabriolet sits 15 millimetres lower than the saloon, and the top can be fully opened and closed in 20 seconds when travelling at speeds up to 50 km / h.

If wished, this lowers the centre of gravity on the GLE 63 by up to 30 millimetres and significantly improves the handling during fast cornering.

Front and rear disc brakes (front: internally ventilated) with a diameter of up to 330 millimetres and a thickness of up to 28 millimetres (CLC 350) provide reliable deceleration.

The transmission tunnel that runs through the spine of the floor is quite high which eats into foot room for the middle occupant, and the rear air - conditioning takes up crucial millimetres of knee room.

If the E-Class is ordered with the seven - speed automatic transmission and DIRECT SELECT gearshift on the steering column, the shift / selector lever usually found on the centre console is replaced by a closable stowage compartment with a wood - trimmed sliding cover or a double cup holder suitable for various cups, cans or bottles with a diameter of up to 82 millimetres.

Tests at the Mercedes - Benz Technology Centre have shown that this PRE-SAFE ® function and preventive belt tensioning increase the distance between the shoulder and the inner door lining by up to 40 millimetres at a lateral acceleration of 0.6 g, enabling the sidebag to fulfil its protective function even more effectively.

The front air cushion increases the seat cushion length by up to 50 millimetres at the push of a button, allowing occupants to relax their legs and ensuring good blood circulation.

Ground clearance can be raised by 20 millimetres at the touch of a button for driving on rough ground or up steep ramps.

With 222 millimetres of ground clearance, the X-Class climbs gradients of up to 45 degrees, fords water courses with a depth of up to 60 centimetres.

There is also 15 millimetres of additional knee room behind the front seats, while headroom is up by eight millimetres.

Some consider that the upcoming Mini Countryman â $» the up - to - five - passenger, all - wheel - drive five - door â $ œcrossoverâ $ thatâ $ ™ s within millimetres of â $ œnormalâ $ compact hatchbacks â $» is already pushing the limits of the original modelâ $ ™ s minimalist design ethos.

Standard kit includes a proper low gear range, locking centre differential, adjustable ride height (with up to 226 millimetres of grand clearance), adjustable shocks, and second - gear start function (for low - traction conditions).

It's OK up front; the steering wheel tilts and telescopes, and the six - way manually adjustable driver's seat allows for 954 millimetres of front headroom and 1,058 mm of legroom, but it's mighty tight in the back.

Working with a crew of twenty, the artists hauled two and a half tons of clay up 10 storeys of scaffolding and smeared it across the concrete to a thickness of four or five millimetres.

If extra human CO2 does warm the top millimetre of the ocean a little before the extra down welling infrared radiation is bounced back up by the almost impermeable ocean surface then the air immediately above the ocean surface will promptly warm up.

iii) So, what if all that extra re-radiation warms up the surface «skin» of the ocean without immediate mixing but only to a depth of one millimetre.

It is proposed by Realclimate that the extra down welling infrared radiation warms up that top single millimetre layer (they call it the ocean «skin») a tiny bit and apparently that is enough to disrupt the worldwide flow of heat energy from ocean to air to space with the result that the oceans release incoming solar energy more slowly so that heat builds up in the oceans.

The typical radii of raindrops resulting from this type of precipitation process range up to several millimetres and have fall velocities of around 3 to 4 metres (10 to 13 feet) per second.

A couple of millimetres slimmer than the original Apple iPad at 10.5 mm thick, it weighs 394g and takes up just 190x124mm of pocket or bag space.

I couldn't, because I was minding fraidy - cat Sprog 2, whose idea of a scary ride is the the little rocket ships that go round and round very slowly, then occasionally up and down (a few millimetres) to break the monotony.

I was black and blue from my chest up and could only open my mouth a millimetre because of all the torn muscles.