Thickness
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You only need a layer
thickness
of 0.2 micrometers to absorb the energy of the sun.
Only until they check the
thickness
of the red lines do they determine who actually got the deer.
Needing to grasp on to a strand of optimism, perhaps only the
thickness
of a human hair, I long ago decided that the film existed purely as a textbook demonstration for future filmmakers on how not to make a successful sequel to a hit movie.
The first thing the struck my is how much better looking the film is, and the second thing that struck me is that, other than the length and
thickness
of the plot and story, it is remarkably similar to his earlier films.
Yearly estimates show that 2011 set an all-time low for overall ice volume – which is computed from area and
thickness
– in the Arctic Ocean.
For example, it has been estimated that if we were to use sections of about 35 square micrometers (millionths of a meter) at a
thickness
of 20 nanometers, we would need more than 1.4 billion sections to reconstruct fully just one cubic millimeter of tissue.
So, while complete reconstructions of a small region of the mammalian brain are feasible, structures like the cerebral cortex – with a surface area of 0.22 square meters and a
thickness
of between 1.5-4.5 millimeters – cannot be fully reconstructed.
It was about the
thickness
of the coal-bed, hardly sixty centimetres.
It was a savage competition which forced him to economize, the more so since the great depth of Jean-Bart increased the price of extraction, an unfavourable condition hardly compensated by the great
thickness
of the coal-beds.
A captain who was there estimated that the
thickness
of the block which separated them from their mates could not be less than fifty metres.
The first hull has a
thickness
of no less than five centimeters and weighs 394.96 metric tons.
Now then, I use glass windows measuring no less than twenty-one centimeters at their centers; in other words, they've thirty times the thickness."
Ned Land tapped these walls and tried to probe their
thickness.
At certain moments the ship encountered ice at a depth of 900 meters, denoting a
thickness
of 1,200 meters, of which 300 meters rose above the level of the ocean.
Long bores were driven into the side walls; but after fifteen meters, the instruments were still impeded by the
thickness
of those walls.
He explained to the company the future importance of this establishment, computed the strength of the floorings, the
thickness
of the walls, and regretted extremely not having a yard-stick such as Monsieur Binet possessed for his own special use.
"That or the skull must have had a reasonable portion of thickness, I admit."
'I am all right, Sir,' replied Mr. Stiggins, in a tone in which ferocity was blended with an extreme
thickness
of utterance; 'I am all right, Sir.''Oh, very well,' rejoined Mr. Anthony Humm, retreating a few paces.
It was of the same peculiar tint, and the same
thickness.
Tarvin considered for a while whether he could climb into the crook of the lowest branch, then moved on a few steps, and found the wall rent from top to bottom through the twenty feet of its thickness, allowing passage for the head of an army.
They looked hesitatingly around them, and appeared to doubt the
thickness
of the partition between them and the office of M. de Treville; but a fresh allusion soon brought back the conversation to his Eminence, and then the laughter recovered its loudness and the light was not withheld from any of his actions.
"At length I heard the well-known noise of the door, which opened and shut; I heard, notwithstanding the
thickness
of the carpet, a step which made the floor creak; I saw, notwithstanding the darkness, a shadow which approached my bed.""Haste!
But with the help of this outflow the
thickness
of the crust of the island increased materially, and therefore also its powers of resistance.
He uncoiled a cord of the
thickness
of a finger, and four hundred feet long; first he dropped half of it down, then he passed it round a lava block that projected conveniently, and threw the other half down the chimney.
Then I began to hear distinctly quite a new sound of something running within the
thickness
of the granite wall, a kind of dull, dead rumbling, like distant thunder.
"Why, this is the very limit assigned by science to the
thickness
of the crust of the earth."
Could he be trying to measure the
thickness
of the crust of the earth that lay between us and the world above?
It was useless to think of lighting it from above, because of the enormous
thickness
of the granite which composed the ceiling; but perhaps the outer wall next the sea might be pierced.
"Here," replied the engineer, showing the sturdy sailor a considerable recess in the side, which would much diminish the
thickness.
The wall only measured there three feet in
thickness.
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