Sentence examples for millimetres of soil from inspiring English sources

Biological soil crust, also called cryptobiotic soil crust, microbiotic soil crust, or cryptogamic soil crust, thin layer of living material formed in the uppermost millimetres of soil where soil particles are aggregated by a community of highly specialized organisms.

Observations of deformation processes, recorded using long-exposure photography, revealed that during the initial stages of sinkage (a few millimetres), the corresponding disturbance of soil below the plate extended disproportionately further and was cylindrical in form.

The greater efficiency in the use of irrigation water for sweet corn was of 36 kg ha−1 for every millimetre laminate of watering applied, found in the −30 kPa treatment of soil moisture tension.

The water balance equation for change of soil moisture storage in a soil is given as where S is storage, P is precipitation, E is evaporation, and R is surface runoff plus percolation rate into the groundwater zone; all terms are in units of length per unit of time (e.g., millimetres per day, centimetres per month).

It's millimetres of a tail feather.

Both numbers are measured in millimetres of mercury (mmHg).

At sea level and a barometric pressure of 760 millimetres of mercury, the partial pressure of nitrogen is 79.02 percent of 760 millimetres of mercury, or 600.55 millimetres of mercury; that of oxygen is 159.16 millimetres of mercury; and that of carbon dioxide is 0.20 millimetres of mercury.

At 7,600 metres (25,000 feet) the atmospheric pressure is 282 millimetres of mercury and the partial pressure of oxygen is about 59 millimetres of mercury.

The results were expressed in millimetres of mercury (mmHg).

A £20 Argos tent might not seem much, but those millimetres of polythene save lives.

BP values were reported in millimetres of mercury (mm Hg).