Sentence examples for diameter from inspiring English sources

It has nowhere near the pulling power of tractor beams envisaged in science fiction, but the first long-distance optical tractor beam has so far moved particles one fifth of a millimetre in diameter a distance of up to 20cm.

A physicist at Fermilab in Chicago has calculated that an apple fired at such velocity would, if it hit the moon, excavate a crater six miles in diameter.

Minor signs are reddening and swelling, crusting and bleeding; a "different" feel to it, including pain or itch; and a diameter of 7mm or more.

Each filter is made up of tiny micro tubes with pores hundreds of times smaller than the diameter of a human hair.

Attempts have even been made to measure the diameter of the net (see below).

This figure gives us an estimate for the diameter of the hazy ball that these sites and links form.

Although the diameter of the web will increase as the number of sites increases, large numbers of new nodes result only in small changes in the diameter.

In the middle is a well – just a pit paved with some stone slabs – about 150 feet in diameter or less to go with the size of the dakhma.

It was nudging a spherical boulder as high as its blade, one metre in diameter.

Simmer until the juice has thickened, then allow to cool. 2 Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/gas mark 6. Roll out the leftover pastry scraps, and cut out discs of about 8-10cm in diameter.

Put eight small ovenproof bowls about 9cm in diameter and 4cm high into a high-sided baking tray.