Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Cubic kilometre


Related Topics

In the News (Sat 11 Oct 08)

  
  Cubic metre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The cubic metre (symbol m³) is the SI derived unit of volume.
A cubic millimetre (mm³) is the volume equal to that of a cube with edges of 1 millimetre.
A cubic kilometre (km³) is the volume equal to that of a cube of side length 1 kilometre.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cubic_kilometre   (397 words)

  
 Kilometre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer), symbol: km is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words χίλια (khilia) = thousand and μέτρο (metro) = count/measure).
Like the kilometre, all units of length in the metric system are based on the metre, by adding an SI prefix that stands for a power of ten, such as hecto for one hundred to form hectometre (= 0.1 kilometre) or mega for one million to form megametre (= 1,000 kilometre).
Unicode has symbols for "km" (㎞), for square kilometre (㎢) and for cubic kilometre (㎦); however, they are useful only in CJK texts, where they are equal in size to one Chinese character.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kilometre   (267 words)

  
 Cubic metre - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
A cubic decimetre (symbol dm³) is the volume of a cube of side length 1 decimetre (10 cm).
A cubic millimetre (mm³) is a metric unit of volume, equal to that enclosed by a cube whose edges each measure one millimetre (mm).
A cubic kilometre (symbol km³) is the volume of a cube of side length 1 kilometre (1000 metres).
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Cubic_metre   (606 words)

  
 Kilometre Online Research :: Information about Kilometre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
A kilometre (American English : kilometer), symbol: km is a Physical unit of Length in the Metric system equal to 1000 Metre (from the Greek language words χίλια (khilia) = thousand and μέτρο (metro) = count/measure).
It is approximately equal to 0.621 Mile, 1094 Yard or 3281 Foot (unit of length).
In theory, the pronunciation of the word kilometre should have the stress placed on the first syllable, in line with other metric prefixes (as in Kilogram, Joule and, analogous, Kilobyte).
in-northcarolina.com /search/Kilometre.html   (250 words)

  
 Read about Cubic metre at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Cubic metre and learn about Cubic metre here!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
A cubic metre of pure water at a temperature of 3.98 °C (degrees
A cubic millimetre (mm³) is a metric unit of volume, equal to that enclosed by a cube whose edges each measure one
A cubic kilometre (symbol km³) is the volume of a cube of side length 1
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Cubic_millimetre   (520 words)

  
 Cubic metre -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The cubic metre (symbol m³) is the (Click link for more info and facts about SI derived unit) SI derived unit of (The magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction)) volume.
It is the volume of a (A block in the (approximate) shape of a cube) cube with edges one ((prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse) metre in (The linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest horizontal dimension of something that is fixed in place) length.
(A metric unit of capacity equal to the volume of 1 kilogram of pure water at 4 degrees centigrade and 760 mm of mercury (or approximately 1.76 pints)) cubic decimetre << cubic metre << (A unit of capacity equal to the volume of a cube one kilometer on each edge) cubic kilometre
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/cu/cubic_metre.htm   (284 words)

  
 WaterWars
Water scarcity: In general a country with less than 1,700 cubic meter per capita is regarded as experiencing water stress, while less than 1000 cubic meter is regarded as water shortage.
Iran for example had 2,025 cubic meter per capita in 1990, the figure projected for 2025 is between 776 and 860 cubic meter.
By 1990, the carrier was diverting 440 million cubic meter a year of water that used to pass through the Jordan all the way to the Dead Sea.
www.mideastnews.com /WaterWars.htm   (5943 words)

  
 Cubic kilometre -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
A cubic kilometre (symbol km³) is an (Click link for more info and facts about SI derived unit) SI derived unit of (The magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction)) volume.
It is the volume of a cube of side length 1 (A metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles)) kilometre (1000 ((prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse) metres).
(A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 1000 liters) cubic metres
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/cu/cubic_kilometre.htm   (137 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Cubic kilometre Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
A cubic kilometre is an SI derived unit of volume.
It is the volume of a cube of side length 1 kilometre.
1 km³ = 10 9 cubic metres cubic metre << cubic kilometre << cubic megametre See al...
www.ipedia.com /cubic_kilometre.html   (118 words)

  
 Evolution of stars
The increase of speed of the particles means also that the temperature of the cloud increases: the temperature of an object is directly related to the speed of particles within that particular object - whether it is a bowl of water or a piece of iron, or an inter-stellar cloud.
The carbon core of the star is extremely dense, one cubic centimetre of it weighing metric tons.
By measuring signal distortion the scientists came to conclusion that the object emitting the signals was around 10-20 kilometres in radius, and yet as massive as the Sun.
www.milky-way.com /gb/sevol.htm   (3885 words)

  
 Evolution of the Stars
A cubic centimetre or even a cubic kilometre of inter-stellar cloud contains a very limited number of particles and weighs extremely little.
But the inter-stellar space is immense, so immense that the volume is no longer calculated in cubic centimetres or kilometres, but in years of light.
Up to this moment, the original size of the cloud has also diminished from trillions of kilometres down to around 200 millions kilometres or less, which is roughly 30 000 times the diametre of the Earth.
www.milky-way.com /pl/sevol.htm   (3801 words)

  
 Articles - Litre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Litres are most commonly used for items measured by the capacity or size of their container (such as fluids and berries), whereas cubic metres (and derived units) are most commonly used for items measured either by their dimensions or their displacements.
In 1793, the litre was introduced in France as one of the new "Republican Measures", and defined as one cubic decimetre.
In 1964, at the 12th CGPM conference, the litre was once again defined in exact relation to the metre, as another name for the cubic decimetre, that is, exactly 1 dm³.
www.poncier.com /articles/Kilolitre   (615 words)

  
 S. J. Farthing. Environment.
1 cubic kilometre is a huge cube one kilometre in each direction.
It is 1000 x 1000 x 1000 cubic metres.
1 cubic metre of water weighs 1 tonne.
www.angelfire.com /co/farthing/environment.html   (666 words)

  
 Canada and the World Backgrounder: It's not inexhaustible: water is the fundamental resource without which life, in the ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
About a third of the water that falls on land (34,000 cubic kilometres) is all that's available to sustain human and non-human life.
This works out to 18.25 cubic metres of water a year and is the absolute bare minimum for one person.
It takes one billion cubic metres to make one cubic kilometre; divided by six billion, equals 5,667 cubic metres per person per year.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3695/is_200105/ai_n8944737   (1636 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Io (moon)
Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area.
In celestial mechanics, orbital resonance occurs when two orbiting bodies have periods of revolution that are in a simple integer ratio so that they exert a regular gravitational influence on each other.
Tvashtar Catena, a region of active volcanism on Io Interior of Io In addition to volcanoes, Io's surface includes nonvolcanic mountains, numerous lakes of molten sulfur, calderas up to several kilometres deep, and extensive flows hundreds of kilometres long of low-viscosity fluid (possibly some form of molten sulfur or silicate).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Io-%28moon%29   (4423 words)

  
 Freshwater Website: Informational Resources and Services: Publications - FSA-2
Scientists estimate over one billion cubic kilometres (one cubic kilometre of water would fill 300 Olympic stadiums).
The lowest flows on rivers in Canada generally occur in late summer, when precipitation is low and evaporation along with consumption by plants is high, and in late winter, when rivers are ice covered and the precipitation is stored until spring in the form of ice and snow.
The Great Lakes, straddling the Canada-U.S. boundary, contain 25% (22 700 cubic kilometres) of the world's freshwater in lakes (sharing "first place" with Lake Baykal, Russia).
www.p2pays.org /ref/20/19073.htm   (1560 words)

  
 cubic metre
See 1 E0 m³ for a comparison with other volumes, also orders of magnitude.
A cubic metre of pure water at a temperature of 4 degrees Celsius and standard atmospheric pressure has a mass close to 1000 kg (one tonne).
Kilogram per cubic metre - Definition of Kilogram per cubic metre by...
www.fact-library.com /cubic_metre.html   (110 words)

  
 Cubic metre - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
A cubic metre of pure water at a temperature of 3.98 °C (degrees Celsius) and standard atmospheric pressure has a mass of 1000 kg (one tonne)
cubic decimetre << cubic metre << cubic kilometre
Conversions of volume, capacity, cubic meters, kilograms, weight of water and milliliters to liters - prefixes
open-encyclopedia.com /Cubic_metre   (135 words)

  
 A.E.Brain
A cubic kilometre of rock masses about 5 times the same volume of water.
A cubic kilometre of water weighs 1.0e9 kilograms, call it a million tonnes.
Because that 1 cubic kilometer chunk of rock I used as an example is a
aebrain.blogspot.com /2004/12/real-star-wars.html   (698 words)

  
 Reservoir flow to save waterfowl
In the next 25 days, more than 63 million cubic metres of water are scheduled to flow out of the Cha'ersen Reservoir in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to the downstream wetland in Jilin Province, which has been plagued by four consecutive years of drought.
The reserve, the largest of its type and host to numerous endangered wild animals and waterfowl species, was put on the International Important Marsh list in 1992 but is now close to drying up.
China has more than 600,000 square kilometres of wetlands, 10 per cent of the world's total and the largest area in Asia.
www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2004-06/26/content_342860.htm   (754 words)

  
 Financial Express   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
By various estimates, around 9.0 million cubic metres of dredging is required to make the country's 22000 kilometre river ways navigable throughout the year.
But Bangladesh, at the moment, has the capacity of carrying out dredging work of only 3.0 million cubic metres.
Of the total river ways, only 3800 kilometres remain navigable during the dry season while 6000 kilometres during the rainy season.
www.financialexpress-bd.com /index3.asp?cnd=5/14/2005§ion_id=1&newsid=10&spcl=no   (796 words)

  
 Alternative News Network, Cairns, tropical north Queensland, Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
"One cubic kilometre of rock at a temperature of 250 degrees centigrade contains about as much energy as 40 million barrels of oil.
"The power stored in one cubic kilometre of rock at a temperature of 250 degrees Centigrade is significantly more than the entire current conventional oil and condensate resources (approx 33 million barrels) identified in Queensland.
Mr Robertson said active geothermal exploration was already underway in South Australia and positive results there would generate considerable interest in Queensland's geothermal potential as early as 2005.
us.altnews.com.au /article.php?sid=6928   (757 words)

  
 UNEP/GRID-Arendal: ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN
Uzbekistan is at present still engaged in an extremely complicated process of transition to genuine independence, from obscurity to world-wide recognition, from a totalitarian regime to a democratic society, from a centralised planned economy to a market-oriented one.
Irretrievable water use for irrigation has brought on an abrupt reduction of the inflow of the waters of the rivers Amudar'ya (from 37.9 cubic kilometres in 1960 to 1.0 cubic kilometre in 1989) and Syrdar'ya (from 21.0 cubic kilometres in 1960 to 4.4 cubic kilometres in 1989 and 8.9 in 1994) into the Aral Sea.
Besides, about 80 million cubic metres of untreated wastes are annually dumped at more than 230 waste sites in urban and rural areas, practically none of which meets sanitary and environmental standards.
enrin.grida.no /htmls/uzbek/uzbek_e.htm   (7571 words)

  
 sciforums.com - Total volume of Gold mined?
But given that theres a billion cubic metres in a cubic kilometre, thats not really much volume at all.
The total amount of gold mined in the world in the history of mankind amounts to less than 90,000 tons.
I also remember reading that there is about a gramme or thereabouts in a cubic mile of seawater, but i have hundreds of books and have'nt a clue which one
www.sciforums.com /showthread.php?p=720666   (342 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Business | Arctic exploration creates new alliances
Along with energy giants Total, Chevron and Conoco, the Norwegian groups are particularly keen to be selected as partners in a Gazprom-led consortium that is preparing to construct a giant gas field in the Barents Sea, 560 kilometres north-east of Murmansk.
Development costs are estimated at between $10bn (£5.6bn) and $25bn, though the lower figure is considered wildly optimistic by financiers with fresh memories of almost $3bn cost-overruns at the other major Barents Sea development, the $8.8bn Snohvit gas project just off the Norwegian coast near Hammerfest.
The 1,400 square kilometre large Shtokman field is set to become the world's largest offshore gas field with 3.2 trillion cubic metres of gas contained in reservoirs two kilometres below the seabed, which is itself at 350 metres depths.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/4356014.stm   (785 words)

  
 Managing Water Scarcity for Water Security   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Can be measured by annual renewable flows (in cubic metres) per head of population, or its reciprocal, viz.
At levels of internal renewable water availability of less than 1,000 cubic meters per head, FAO regards water as a severe constraint on socio-economic development and environmental protection.
m per head is equivalent to 1 million people reliant on a cubic kilometre annually.
www.fao.org /ag/agl/aglw/webpub/scarcity.htm   (5635 words)

  
 Geoscience Australia: Southwest frontiers
Undertaken in October and November 2004, the survey acquired 2700 kilometres of industry-standard, 106-fold seismic reflection data recorded to 12 seconds two-way time using a 6–8 kilometre digital streamer and 4900 cubic inch air gun array.
The land stations were placed along the onshore continuation of three key survey lines (figure 1) to record refractions from the seismic vessel’s energy source—a 4900 cubic inch air gun array.
Twenty-nine sonobuoys (19 in the Bremer Sub-basin) recorded data to maximum offsets of 23 kilometres.
www.agso.gov.au /ausgeonews/ausgeonews200503/southwest.jsp   (732 words)

  
 cubic
Cubic Inch Acres--Classic & Performance Vehicles and Motorcycles--Buy, Sell,...
Fashion jewelry, cubic zirconia earrings, sterling silver jewelry, silver...
Cubic and $eeN and other demo scene related stuff
www.fact-library.com /cubic.html   (65 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.