Sentence examples for midplane from inspiring English sources

As the local density increases at the midplane, the opportunity becomes greater for the growth of particles by collision.

The thickness of this disk is determined by the gas it contains, as the solid particles that are forming rapidly settle to the disk's midplane, in times ranging from 100,000 years for 1-micrometre (0.00004-inch) particles to just 10 years for 1-cm (0.4-inch) particles.

Further compression of the disk's central region formed the Sun, while the gas and dust left behind in the midplane of the surrounding disk eventually coalesced to form ever-larger objects and, ultimately, the planets.

Clumps of interstellar matter left behind in the midplane of the solar disk as it contracted toward its centre gradually coalesced, through a process of accretion, to form grains, pebbles, boulders, and then planetesimals measuring a few kilometres to several hundred kilometres across.

Moreover, the Sun was located not at its centre but rather at its radial outskirts (though close to the midplane of a flattened disk).

The availability of ice is certainly key to their development, but perhaps this ice formed very early, when the temperature at the nebula's midplane was less than 25 K.

The moment will act in the stable direction only as long as the point M (the "metacentre," the point where the buoyant force intersects the midplane) is above G (the centre of gravity of the ship and its contents).