These ice-cube-size crystals are grown slowly in ovens heated as high as 1, 800 degrees Fahrenheit, adding just one centimeter in a day.

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They end up with assemblies or parliaments of that size because, the argument goes, the cube root of the population is the optimal size.

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For decades the jeweler didn't countenance anyone who couldn't afford a diamond the size of an ice cube.

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Given the cube relationship, and the increasing efficiency and size of these systems, wind developers are now eyeing offshore locations.

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The finished product is expected to be about the same size as a Rubik's cube and, said its creators, would let owners get at its innards to make their own modifications and write their own games.

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The water is afloat with glassy splinters, hardly bigger than an ice cube, ranging up to colossal tabular icebergs, some the size of several football pitches.

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He studies the material properties of tissue and organs from animals and cadavers to assign shape, size, density, mass and ten or more coefficients that describe how each cube of virtual flesh will deform when confronted with a given force from a given direction.

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The tinier printer does gain portability from the size shrink (it has only has room for a 5.5-inch cube) and the ability to be powered by a battery thanks to its low power-draw.

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And on February 7th Alcatel-Lucent unveiled technology that reduces the size of a wireless base station from a filing cabinet's to that of a Rubik's cube.

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