These are able to measure the spectrum of the light reflected from a cloud so accurately that Dr Rosenfeld could deduce the average size of its water droplets from the amount of light that they reflected.
That is one data point for each stretch of water the size of California.
The process reduces the trash by at least 10 times the original size and squeezes out water that could be recycled.
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Engineers have built a contraption of water heater size that strips hydrogen out of natural gas while burning the carbon to provide heat for the home.
The fountain depicts a life-size female figure pouring water from an urn into a bowl with the inscriptions "take the water of life freely" and "water is best".
They are not as sensitive as sharks and rays, but can detect signals of the same size as those produced in water when fish move their muscles.
About the size and weight of a water bottle, the Jabra Solemate is small and light and features a thick carrying strap that makes it even easier to carry around and use in any environment.
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That power makes it easy to pop up onto a water-ski-size board and surf off across the waves.
Another line, the GE Profile, automatically streams water into containers of any size using sound waves.
The footlocker-size ice cubes are plucked from the water by crane and fitted into the walk-in palace on the shore.
Typically, capital costs will expand with distance from land and water depth and contract as the size of a project increases.
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Once over the top of a high dune, you come to a hot spring, the size of a large jacuzzi, where sulphurous water bubbles in a pool and runs off to irrigate a garden.
As a result, he seems to have discovered the size and shape of the smallest possible drop of water.
Those are determined by temperature (warmer water takes up more room) and the size of the Greenland and Antarctic ice caps.
The chain also was lauded for not offering sugary drinks as an option with kids meals, instead including low-fat milk or bottled water and apple slices with its child-size subs.
Electricity markets are similar to a network of water pools that are connected to each other by fixed size pipes.
So, compared with a regular vessel and a cloak of the same size, the latter needs to push a much smaller volume of water.
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They carefully dictate everything from the size of the crabs caught to the salinity and temperature of the water they are stored in until they arrive nightly at the restaurant.
In December a company called Blue H Technologies, based in Oosterhout in the Netherlands, placed a half-size prototype turbine about 20km off the coast of southern Italy in water 108 metres deep.
In Bangladesh, villagers build raised earth mounds the size of football pitches, on which trees are planted and food and water is stored: in an emergency, they and their animals can retreat to this man-made higher ground.
How often the Universe has planets truly like the earth - true earth twins, planets the size of the earth, rocky planets with a surface that supports liquid water - well, we don't have that number yet, but I'm optimistic we'll figure it out.
In a section on water in outer space we learn that there is a lake-size layer of ice on the moon's south pole, that Mars once had rivers, that there is steam in the sun's atmosphere.
Water management, for example, is probably a bigger worry than the size of the diversion.
Cover with a plate of the same size and add a heavy weight on top (such as a large bottle of water) so that water can be squeezed out of the aubergines.
NASA's Kepler telescope has discovered three "super-Earth-size" exoplanets that are close enough to their stars to make them possibly suitable for water.
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Scientists on the mission team say the size and rounded shape of the pebbles in the rock indicate they had been transported and eroded in water.
Such nanotechnology involves engineering carbon-based polymer molecules, one-millionth the size of a grain of sand, that attach to fibers to wick away moisture and resist stains, water and static.
Most incredible of all is the size of the Anzani engine - just 25 horsepower, barely enough oomph to carry even a tiny plane across the water.
While drilling in that depth of water was prohibitively expensive a decade ago, it's now easy for a company Triton's size to rent a drillship to find the oil and set up a floating production platform to process it.
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