Sentence examples for amount of ballast from inspiring English sources

The buoyancy of a gas balloon is controlled by changing the amount of gas in the balloon or the amount of ballast.

The rest of the flight was very smooth, due in no small part to me providing just the right amount of ballast.

The buoyancy of a hot-air balloon is controlled by heating the air in the balloon or by changing the amount of ballast (extra weight).

Therefore, to find the amount of ballast resistor (R Ballast) in Fig. 4, in addition to the current of the laser tube, the operating point voltage of the laser was also needed to be obtained.

Given the uncertainties about the loading conditions, several hypotheses are tested, varying the amount of ballast, the degree of overloading and the distribution of weights on board, and allowing the development of a range of plausible loading arrangements.

This can facilitate a considerable increase in antigen concentration and at the same time lowering the amount of tissue needed for the preparation of a single vaccine dose, which would allow the reducuction of the amount of ballast material to be delivered and to shorten exposure of an oral vaccine to the GALT system [ 3, 43].

Engineers tested vibrations in one plane at a time with different amounts of ballast simulating "fuel load at critical time points in the flight trajectory".

A serious drawback of such carrier-bound enzymes (Cao et al. 2003) in general is their low productivities (kilograms product per kilogram enzyme) owing to the large amount of non-catalytic ballast (often >95% of the total mass).

Last month, the E.P.A. announced its first mandatory limits on the amount of organisms that shippers can discharge in ballast.

The only thing we check all the time is the weight, because the weight is the easiest thing to alter and to gain the most advantage out of with the least amount of money or effort to spend — just ballast or fluids.

The waters of the United States alone receive some 80m tonnes a year of ballast water.