In addition to mastery of traditional calligraphy, the art of engraving requires a high degree of virtuosity, since the artist works on a tiny surface area where every curve, every thickness of line counts.
Washing generally involves high temperatures, fine sprays (and hence a large surface area) and a lot of sloshing around of water, all of which promote efficient chemical stripping.
Airships demonstrate a law of increasing returns: doubling the length increases the surface area (and hence weight) by a factor of four while the volume (and hence lifting capacity) goes up by a factor of eight.
But an eight-inch wafer has a surface area of over 50 square inches (A four-inch radius squared times Pi).
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The controller allows a Qi-compliant smartphone or other portable device to charge in a surface area of at least 70 mm by 20 mm, 400-percent larger compared to today's 18-mm by 18-mm "bull's-eye" charge space.
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Supercapacitors have a big internal surface-area that allows a large amount of energy to be delivered rapidly and are used in some electric cars to provide a short burst of power for rapid acceleration and in hybrids to recover energy during braking.
Bashkirskiyi Ural, Russian Federation, is located in the western slopes on southern Ural and covers a total surface area of 345, 700 ha.
Essentially a network of tiny wires, it features a larger surface area than flat electrodes, giving it the leverage it needs to convert more electricity in a smaller form factor.
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Self-seeding may explain why large tumors tend to grow (in percentage terms) more slowly than small tumors: It could be that growth is a function of surface area rather than volume.
The result, they claim in a paper that will appear this month in the Journal of Physical Chemistry, is a nanofibre material with an extremely high ratio of surface-area to volume.
On the other hand, since lots of small drops have a collective surface area greater than a few large ones, they reflect much more light.
In developing the thematic area, UNESCO is a leader in the areas of: transboundary surface and groundwater, water quality, integrated water resource management and climate change adaptation and water.
As the name implies, it's all based around pressure: a light touch performs the usual commands, while squishing the thumb's wider surface area against the screen allows the equivalent of a multi-touch gesture, such as a pinch to zoom.
Sadly the keyboard is a bit of a mixed bag -- the short travel and small surface area of the individual keys will be an issue for some.
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The Lipsky home in Parker County, Texas sits atop an area in the vicinity of horizontal fracking lines from two gas wells about a mile below the surface.
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The theory is relatively simple: Seawater and freshwater, filtered to remove silt, are fed into pipes which lead to a membrane system, made up of spiral coils to maximize surface area.
They generally require the drillers to file a plan for royalty-sharing when the drilling permit is issued for a specific unit, based upon known geometry of hydrocarbon reservoirs and surface area.
According to a web tool that puts the slick over your home region, the vast area of surface oil is now bigger than Massachusetts, Connecticut and Long Island combined.
With labour costs still a small fraction of the euro area's, the prospects for growth look good on the surface.
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It is much quicker to get out of the house, but you can fit only so many houses on a given surface area.
When you tack that figure on with the 30.3 x 18.3-inch (769.3 x 463.74mm) surface area that also remains relatively unchanged, you'll find a substantial amount of space will need to be dedicated to the high-end peripheral.
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Then the wastewater is pumped into and out of cells that contain a special gravel, akin to kitty litter, that is designed to offer lots of surface area for bacteria to grow.
The elephant distributes its weight at least over all 4 feet, and even if standing on one leg, over the area of the one foot- you might actually get more damage from a good stomp with a heel that has a small surface area.
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