Sentence examples for on a grain from inspiring English sources

Nano-cartography: IBM Zurich researchers have created a tiny map of the world; 1,000 such maps could fit on a grain of salt.

A circuit with 10 billion switches could eventually fit on a grain of salt; that's a thousand times the density of the transistors in today's best computers.

Like most well-constructed character assassinations, however, this one was founded on a grain of fact that made it that much harder to quash.

The assumption made in many surface chemistry models, that the reactive population of heavy atoms and/or molecules on a grain surface at any instant can be restricted to only zero, one, or two, species, is most likely in serious error.

There were "plenty of false stories circulating", he declares, before adding: "but some were based on a grain of truth".

There was even someone who for £5 was offering to engrave your name on a grain of rice.

The corpse, a middle-aged man shot through the neck and head, lay on a plastic grain sack, still wet.

This suggests that isotopic disequilibrium on a grain-size scale may be important in determining the isotopic composition of melts derived from the mantle.

Where most models would simulate the flow of granular material on a grain-by-grain basis — a computationally laborious task — Kamrin's continuum model represents the average behavior of a small cube of grains, and builds into the model effects from neighboring cubes.

The scheme employs finite element simulations based on crystal plasticity that explicitly render the microstructure and a methodology that estimates transgranular growth of microstructurally small cracks on a grain-by-grain basis, including consideration of growth within grains and stress redistribution as the cracks extend.

Conventional beef cattle are fattened quickly on a grain-based diet and slaughtered around 15 to 20 months.