Sentence examples for unit of material from inspiring English sources

Thus, a spherical fissile core has the fewest escaping neutrons per unit of material, and this compact shape results in the smallest critical mass, all else being equal.

So while artists still release albums and often compose thinking of the album as a unit of material, audiences have more power than ever to chose how they wish to experience recorded music.

Genesis must thus be seen as a part of a larger unit of material traditionally understood to comprise the first five books of the Bible, called the Torah or the Pentateuch.

The estimated yield of nanotubes per unit of material fed to the flame was 0.1 wt% of carbon and 2.5 wt% of iron.

Requests for a complete unit of material, such as en entire box of manuscript material or an entire bound volume, cannot be filled by photocopying, but may be possible through digital imaging, if condition and copyright law allows.

In most of these exceptions, an additional unit of material resource pushes someone over some important threshold.

It can be defined as the amount of heat/energy (expressed in kcal, Btu or J) that can be conducted in unit time through unit area of unit thickness of material, when there is a unit temperature difference.

"I had been thinking about using plain units of material anyway," he said, "but that absolutely crystallized it".

Classical mechanics views a body to be formed of small units of material.

A contractor then uses reactive estimating techniques to quantify components, and values each, using units of material, equipment and labor, and offers a price.

As Pardee observes, "The smallest units of material are, for the most part, understandable, but their relationship to each other and the overall portrait presented of the community are blurred and uncertain and, in some places, even contradictory" (6).