Sentence examples for total amount of matter from inspiring English sources

However the total number of people that can be supported by Earth's resources can not be predicted merely by knowing the total amount of matter or surface area on Earth.

Over the last few years, by peering at those ripples with extraordinary precision, scientists have begun using them not just as general indicators of primordial conditions, but as measuring sticks for determining the basic statistics of the entire cosmos, like the total amount of matter and energy it contains.

Lavoisier's theory that combustion was a reaction between the burning substance and the gas oxygen, present only to a limited extent in the atmosphere, was based on scientific principles, the most important of which was the law of the conservation of matter (after Einstein's relativity theory, of matter and energy): the total amount of matter in the universe is constant.

Astronomical observations of the cosmological expansion rate allow the total amount of matter in the universe to be estimated, although the nature of that matter remains mysterious in part.

As in all material systems, the total amount of matter remains constant, even though its form and location change.

Although this seems a small portion of the total amount of matter, dust grains play an important role in the ISM, not only by acting as catalytic sites for molecule formation but also by shielding molecules from dissociating UV radiation.

The normalized, segmented, and smoothed data were statistically tested using a general linear model based on gaussian field theory using analysis of covariance, with age and gender of participants and total amount of white matter (WM) or grey matter (GM) volume treated as nuisance covariates to detect regional areas of relative accelerated loss of WM or GM volume.

Koen Kuijken of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, says the results by Savaglio and her colleagues suggest that astronomers have overestimated the total amount of baryonic matter-- normal" matter-- normaling of atomatter-- normal

Of course, in any stable ecosystem there is neither an accumulation nor a diminution in the total amount of organic matter present, so that overall there is a balance between the gross primary productivity and the total consumption.

It is to be expected that the growth and productivity (total amount of organic matter produced per unit area per unit time) of tropical rainforests would be higher than that of other vegetation, provided that other factors such as soil fertility or consumption by herbivorous animals are not extremely low or high.

Thus, the amount of PM2.5 continues to increase as the total amount of particulate matter emission declines.