Weight: The Surface weighs two pounds and is about a half inch thick.
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The family of these materials includes much-touted, carbon-based members such as graphene and nanotubes, and are notable in part for their surface area-to-weight ratio.
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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.
The typical barrel of a high-power rifle has exterior grooves, called flutes, to reduce weight and create more surface area to enable the barrel to cool faster.
It is so bad in the Antarctic that ERA-40 rejects most of the surface obs (because they get little weight) and they don't begin to get accepted until the late 1970s.
However, he was refused permission by the Royal Parks Agency who feared the weight of the engine would damage the surface of The Mall.
Smiling a little, Moncayo shifted his weight from one foot to the other, until the whole surface began to undulate beneath him.
Half of the atoms in a five-nanometre particle are on its surface, which can make it many times more toxic than expected by weight alone.
But the recent stronger dollar has been less of a bearish weight on gold, as the yellow metal has seen better safe-haven demand surface as the new year gets under way.
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However, the stronger dollar has been less of a bearish weight on gold recently, as the yellow metal has seen better safe-haven demand surface.
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European Union guidelines say that earrings are supposed to contain less than 0.05% nickel by weight and should not release more than 0.5 micrograms of the metal per square centimetre of their surface area per week.
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