It turns out that the diameter is actually 2.5 centimeters.

它的直径实际上是 2.5 厘米。

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Dr Chatterjee therefore suggests that an object 40km in diameter hit the Earth off the coast of India and forced vast quantities of lava out of the Deccan Traps.

因此，查特基博士认为，一个直径40千米的物体在印度海岸撞击地球，造成德干地盾喷发大量熔岩。

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The object involved, which was likely only a few dozen meters in diameter, could have wiped out a major metropolitan area.

这些天体也许直径只有几十米，但足以摧毁一座大都市。

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And, that's a good thing to know because if you come out with an answer that's somewhere near the diameter of the universe and it's supposed to be the diameter of an atom, then you will know that you probably made a mistake.

这是我们需要知道的,因为当你做一道题得到的答案,是宇宙的直径,而正确答案是原子直径时，你能很快发现你的错误。

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It turns out that the diameter is actually 2 . 5 centimeters.

这个实验完成的很好,而且又没有放射性。

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If the record is confirmed, an 18 ft diameter hollowed out golf ball will be constructed to sit atop the tee, from where golfers will be able to tee off.

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That changed in the mid-1980s, when microscopic sieves--spread throughout steel tubes 30 feet long and 4 to 5 inches in diameter--were developed to filter out undesirable elements before the whey is dried to a powder for use in food manufacturing.

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That changed in the mid-1980s, when microscopic sieves--spread throughout steel tubes that are 10 meters long and 10 to 12 centimeters in diameter--were developed to filter out undesirable elements before the whey was dried to a powder for use in food manufacturing.

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