The company, under its Tapcon brand, began marketing large-diameter concrete screws with tiny, arrowhead-shape chisels wrapped around the screw, to cut into concrete like sharks' teeth.
From the side view silhouette, classic rear-drive sport sedan proportions are conveyed by an extended dash-to-axle length, short overhangs, large-diameter wheels, sharply-tapered greenhouse, and short rear deck.
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The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued new advice saying patients with these large head diameter metal-on-metal hips will need monitoring for the life-time of the implant.
These include long-term energy security, the viability of shipping large volumes of oil through the Bosporus, and the attractiveness of a large-diameter pipeline to a port like Ceyhan, which is able to handle exports from both sides of the Caspian.
Various sizes of caisson will be built, including one 15 metres (50 feet) or so in diameter, large enough to fit over a whole blowout preventer.
Inside the riser pipe is a space about half a meter in diameter, large enough to hold the spinning drill pipe and bit and to allow the return flow of drilling fluid.
This vortex would be produced inside a large cylindrical wall, 200 metres in diameter and 100 metres tall.
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Since the rate at which small drops sweep one another up to form large drops varies with the square of their diameter, such drops are too tiny to make rain.
The crater was much too large for his team to study in detail: ninety miles in diameter, roughly the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined.
Or so says David Eichler, lead author of a forthcoming Astrophysical Journal Letters paper positing that a sun-grazing comet roughly the size of Hale-Bopp (with a nucleus some 30 kms in diameter), could trigger cosmic ray-generating shockwaves large enough to initiate a global electromagnetic Armageddon.
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These large helium-filled balloons, which range up to 400 feet in diameter and can carry 8000 pounds of payload, have attached gondolas designed to house instrumentation, controls, avionics and telescopes.
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The most representative landscape features are a number of large depressions, the Tiankengs, with nearly vertical walls and a depth and diameter typically more than 100 m each.
The parts--as large as 2 feet on a side and accurate within five-thousandths of an inch (about twice the diameter of a human hair)--give more substance to sales pitches and reveal flaws earlier in a product's design.
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