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Topic: Lengths of other orders of magnitude


  
  Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Planck length; lengths smaller than this do not make any physical sense, according to current theories of physics
length of the longest pine cones (produced by the sugar pine)
average length of a rapier, a fencing sword
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(length)   (776 words)

  
 Orders of magnitude (length)
The pages linked in the right-hand column contain lists of lengths that are of the same order of magnitude (power of ten).
Rows in the table represent increasing powers of a thousand (3 orders of magnitude).
Orders of magnitude of other quantities: time, area, volume, mass
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 Asbestos and other natural mineral fibres (EHC 53, 1986)
Other activities carried out by the IPCS include the development of know-how for coping with chemical accidents, coordination of laboratory testing and epidemiological studies, and promotion of research on the mechanisms of the biological action of chemicals.
Other natural mineral fibres that are considered potentially hazardous because of their physical and chemical properties are erionite, wollastonite, attapulgite, and sepiolite.
Other natural mineral fibres also occur in the environment and may, at times, be present at similar or even higher concentrations than asbestos, depending on local conditions.
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 Bond Lengths   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In general English usage, length (symbol: l) is but one particular instance of distance – an object's length is how long the object is – but in the physical sciencesand engineering, the word length is in some contexts used synonymously with " distance ".
Length is the metric of one dimension of space.
Length is commonly considered to be one of the fundamental units, meaning that it cannot be defined in terms of other dimensions.
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 Encyclopedia: Volga River
In general English usage, length (symbols: l, L) is but one particular instance of distance – an objects length is how long the object is – but in the physical sciences and engineering, the word length is in some contexts used synonymously with distance.
A tributary (or affluent or confluent) is a contributory stream, a river that does not reach the sea, but joins another major river (a parent river), to which it contributes its waters, swelling its discharge.
Other important cities on the river include Saratov, Kazan, Tolyatti, and Samara.
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 Evolutionary Theory Developing: The Problem(s) With 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea'
Intentional ordering is an implicate of the fecundity principle and the fecundity principle is assumed in advance as a precondition from which natural selection follows as a consequence.
Ordered flow, in other words, because it must pull in sufficient resources and dissipate them (minimize potentials) to satisfy the balance equation of the second law, must function to increase the rate of entropy production of the system plus environment-that is, whenever order emerges entropy production must increase by a concomitant amount.
We have shown that the opportunistic ordering is the expected consequence of universal principles in a world otherwise thought to be governed by a law of disorder, but what is the principled basis for the instantiation of the epistemic relations or intentional dynamics of living things in a world otherwise thought to be meaningless.
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 STAR WARS: Executor-class Star Dreadnoughts ("Super Star Destroyers")   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This extrapolates to on the order of 400 bumps on the dorsal hull.
Other classes of large guns may be found throughout the dorsal cortex and similar ventral surfaces, although they may be difficult to distinguish from harmless but pointy antennae and aparatus.
Other areas of the ceiling are tiled in relatively smooth terrain exhibiting roughly rectangular lumps and indentations on the order of a hundred metres across.
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 Learn more about Orders of magnitude (length) in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This is a list of orders of magnitude for length.
Other lists for time, area, volume, mass and dimensionless numbers are also available, and an overview is at order of magnitude.
1.5 cm -- length of a large mosquito.
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 Six orders of magnitude in linear tape technology: The one-terabyte project
During that time, other technologies disappeared: drums were superseded by lower SCM cost; punch cards were made obsolete by the advantages of tape storage, by terminals for data input, and by improved HDD performance; and floppy disks are being supplanted by optical devices for data interchange.
While areal density has increased by about two and a half orders of magnitude from the mid-1980s to today, the price of a half-inch tape cartridge has increased from $20 at the time of its introduction in the 1980s to $100 today.
For example, the linear density was increased by a factor of 5/3, the number of tracks was increased by a factor of 19/8, and tape length was increased by a factor of 1.28 by decreasing the thickness from 8.9 µm to 6.9 µm.
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 So Much for Savages: Navajo 1, Government 0 in Final Moments of Play
During the long process of the imperialization of the continent by the United States, speaking Navajo--and other languages in other pre-European families represented within our borders--has been the central means of maintaining a cultural tradition apart from, and often explicitly hostile to, the government exercising control over the territory.
Here, unlike the other empires of our enlightened time, one may vote in a language other than the dominant one, and States have an obligation to make such ballots available where their refusal unduly burdens political choice.
Others are indeed right to claim that government regulation futile in the long run is not therefore unconstitutional in the present.
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 1 E-15 m : 1e-15 m   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
To help compare different orders of magnitudes this page lists lengths between 1 fm[?] and 10 fm (10-15m and 10-14) See also lengths of other orders of magnitude.
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The reader will easily suppose, by what has been before said, that distraction, had she seen but any one of the spectres: what then fainted, and died away at the sight.
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Sometimes the sudden collapse leading to death is preceded by lethargy, trembling, staggering, coldness, dilation of the pupils, rapid pulse that becomes weak, and convulsions.
There are other ways of getting crushed, this just happens to be the most effective I can think up on the spur of the moment.
Each length must not be longer than the height of the bridge.
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 Order of Magnitude   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A number rounded to the nearest power of 10 is called an order of magnitude.
Another way of saying this is that the order of magnitude of the height of an ant is 10
In other words, a human being is 3 orders of magnitude (3 powers of 10) taller than an ant.
www2.pvc.maricopa.edu /tutor/chem/chem151/metric/magnitude.html   (214 words)

  
 BERNARD, SAINT - Online Information article about BERNARD, SAINT
Greco-Latin Eastern Church the necessary order, morality and subordination; to defend it against the greed and violence of the nobles and barons who had founded the Latin Empire; and to compel the leaders of the new empire to submit to the apostolic power and execute its commands.
Christianity, and further reinforced the work of ecclesiastical centralization by enlisting in their service a force which had recently come into existence and was rapidly becoming popular—the mendicant orders, and notably the See also:
FRANCISCANS (otherwise called Friars Minor, or Minorites; also the Seraphic Order ; and in England Grey Friars, from the colour of the habit, which, however, is now brown rather than grey)
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 1e5 m   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
To help compare orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between 100 and 1,000 km (10
223 km -- length of the Madrid metro
724 km -- length of the Om River
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 Knowledge King - 1 E1 m   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between 10 m and 100 m.
See also lengths of other orders of magnitude.
30 m -- length of a blue whale, the largest animal
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 ScienceWeek
For single thermal atoms, the coherence length is determined by the thermal de Broglie wavelength and is thus limited to the micron range, even for temperatures as small as 1 microkelvin.
The twins are strongly correlated in that one always accompanies the other, born simultaneously (within the inverse of their frequency bandwidth), with complementary frequency and direction.
In contrast to other systems (such as atomic nuclei, liquid 3He, and superconductors), the trapping and interaction mechanisms in atomic gases can be manipulated in a controlled manner, allowing the interaction between atoms to be tuned (5).
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 ICC Help: PGN-spec
The length header is an unsigned integer that may be a byte or a word.
The length header is an unsigned integer that is a byte.
The length header is an unsigned integer that may be a byte, a word, or a doubleword.
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 M of A - Other news from paradise
other societies are imperfect but in their flawed attempt at being they mock whatever is called 'democracy' in the united states.
On the other hand, the death toll from starvation and preventable illness is nearly nil, comparable to countries with immensely greater wealth.
Calculations on orders of lethality or, conversely, of the "price to save a life" with various safety/prevention investments are sometimes seen as callous, but are very necessary.
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 1e6 m   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
1,572 km -- Length of Sweden from north to south
2,850 km -- length of the Danube river
9,289 km -- Length of the Trans-Siberian railway
www.yourencyclopedia.net /1e6_m.html   (315 words)

  
 1 E-2 m -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
10 (A metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter) millimetres
1.5 cm — length of an average (Two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals) mosquito.
(A unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years) parsecs)
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/1/1/1_E-2_m.htm   (318 words)

  
 1 E-7 m - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between 10
125 nm — standard depth of pits on compact discs (width: 500 nm, length: 850 nm to 3.5 µm)
180 nm — typical length of the rabies virus
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 INTEL DUMP -
This report comes in the wake of disclosures about other memoranda — one written in early 2002 by UC Berkeley law professor John Yoo while with the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, and a second written by White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales — justifying the White House's overall Guantanamo Bay plan.
The new documents are the latest in a series of reports, e-mails and other records that the ACLU has obtained to bolster its contention that the abuse of prisoners goes far beyond the handful of soldiers charged with abusing detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
In public statements after their release and in documents filed with federal courts, the detainees have said they were beaten before and during interrogations, "short-shackled" to the floor and otherwise mistreated as part of the effort to get them to confess to being members of al Qaeda or the Taliban.
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 Bad Coriolis
It should not be surprising, therefore, to learn that the Coriolis force is orders of magnitude smaller than any of the forces involved in these everyday spinning things.
The magnitude of these rotations may be small, but they are nevertheless gargantuan by comparison to the rotation of the Earth.
The other container can be any small plastic bucket with the only restriction that your pan should be able to sit on top of it so that the bucket can catch the water as it drains.
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 Fractals In Your Future - Mathe Lehr-Inhalte - A Primer on the Theory and Applications of Fractals and Chaos
This dilemma is based on perhaps the most profound and startling property of a fractal, which is that on close inspection each part of the object resembles the object as a whole, often through several orders of magnitude.
The length of the coastline of Great Britain can be found in Encyclopedia Britannica (1960), as equivalent to 3760 km, although the three sides of the triangle which outline the coast total only about 1630 km.
Now, consider a statistic from "The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1994." Here we find that the length of the general outline of the United States seacoast is about 19 900 km, but specifies that the unit of measure was of latitude, which is roughly 56 km.
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 1 E2 m
To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between 100 m and 1 km.
193 m -- the approximate length of New Jersey State Highway 59
The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
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 The Sequence of the Human Genome -- Venter et al. 291 (5507): 1304 -- Science   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
lengths, are abundant throughout the genome and reveal a complex
sequence with faithful order and orientation of contigs is essential
This process yielded scaffolds that are on the order of megabase
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 1 E-1 m   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
15 cm — length of average human penis.
66 cm — length of the longest pine cones (produced by the sugar pine)
90 cm — average length of a rapier, a fencing sword
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/1/1-E-1-m.htm   (210 words)

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