The technology records CO2 pressure in millimeters of mercury.
That means that one side can be pushed in several millimeters with an audible creak, a build-quality issue that Gigabyte says has been fixed in the production-line models.
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The electrodes are 1.27 millimeters in diameter, "about the thickness of angel hair pasta, " Gross explained.
You have to remember that wafers today are 300 millimeters in size.
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Gone from inches to millimeters in thickness so far, and will get thinner with Haswell 4th generation Intel core processors in a few months.
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Together, engineers and factory workers came up with a specially designed tool that allows workers to pivot the two pieces as much as 2 millimeters in either direction to ensure a perfect fit every time.
Knives permitted under the policy must be able to fold up and have blades that are 2.36 inches (60 millimeters) or less in length and are less than a half-inch (127 millimeters) wide.
But such was their intensity -- Wajir, northeast Kenya received more rain in six weeks (402 millimeters) than the annual average -- it led to crop damage, says the WMO.
The iPad 2, in comparison, is 8.8 millimeters thick.
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They cite the example of the Philippines, where policymakers are wringing their hands about a possible gradual climate-change-mediated rise in sea level from 1 to 3 millimeters per year while ignoring the primary cause of enhanced flood risk.
Newer versions of the valve use a catheter that is two millimeters thinner and replace the steel in the device with cobalt chromium.
It's not quite implantable, but Insound Medical's new Lyric hearing aid is about as close as you can get, with it designed to squeeze in deep in your ear canal and sit just a few millimeters from your ear drum.
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"Three millimeters of mercury is enough difference to result in a fairly large difference in cardiovascular events, " says Nissen.
Dr. Chaim Lotem said the hole, measuring 1 to 2 millimeters, is a minor birth defect found in 15 percent to 25 percent of people.
In Coutinho's case, a neurosurgeon said the harpoon was millimeters away from vital arteries.
Through a few hardware changes, Samsung compressed the device, which was first introduced at the Mobile World Congress trade show in mid-February, to a width of 8.6 millimeters.
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However, a team from the Urals Federal University, which is based in Yekaterinburg, collected 53 fragments, the largest of which was 7 millimeters, according to Viktor Grokhovsky, a scientist at the university.
Besides knives, the policy will also allow passengers to include in their carry-on luggage novelty-size baseball bats less than 24 inches (610 millimeters) long, toy plastic bats, billiard cues, ski poles, hockey sticks, lacrosse sticks and two golf clubs.
How did Samsung squeeze more than two millimeters of bulk and four grams of weight out of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the space of several weeks?
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Acer LumiRead comes with 6-inch display, it's only few millimeters thick and permits to carry an entire library of up to 1, 500 books in just a handful of grams.
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