Typically, the doctors apply about a thousandth of the power that's used in a flashlight bulb.
By refining the system further, he expects to be able to weigh a zeptogram a thousandth of an attogram.
It's the manipulation of manufactured materials measuring less than 100 nanometers, or a thousandth the width of a strand of hair.
Air bubbles between a hundredth and a thousandth of a millimetre across can reflect ultrasound thousands of times more effectively than flesh does.
Because the pain medicine is so specifically targeted, it can be delivered in doses of a thousandth to a ten-thousandth of those currently employed.
Then a technique known as interferometry will be used to refine that value to a few microns (a micron is a thousandth of a millimetre).
As these lived for less than a thousandth of a second, their presence was ascertained by examining the daughter atoms into which they quickly decayed.
But when that data ends up on the open market, you may be surprised at the price it fetches: in this case, less than half a thousandth of a penny.
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To their surprise, they discovered that the seed-formation rates for sulphuric acid and ammonia are between a tenth and a thousandth of those needed to account for the cloud seeding actually seen in the atmosphere.
One Saturday evening in early 2001 Rabinowitz mixed the drug with a solvent, transforming the mound of powder into a film 1 micron thick (that's a thousandth of a millimeter) coating a piece of foil.
The prototype white-space devices used in trials had little trouble sensing occupied TV channels, typically picking them up at signal strengths less than a thousandth of that needed to display an image on a TV screen.
The EPA has been forced to slash its 2010 mandate for the most widely touted of the non-corn biofuels, cellulosic ethanol, from 100m gallons to just 6.5m, less than a thousandth of the 11 billion gallons produced from corn in 2009.
The Dutch authorities' independent study of 26 samples of rice imported from Asian nations found average levels of seven parts per billion - a thousandth of those found in the original study - and with no samples above the EU limit of 200 parts per billion.
Today, gaining a mere thousandth of a percent CTR is a success, despite access to increasingly sophisticated technologies and targeting.
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When the effects are calculated in a standard climate model, the result is a reduction in average temperature of 0.00005oC (one twenty-thousandth of a degree Celsius, or one ten-thousandth of a degree Fahrenheit).
After that the industry will have to move on to nonoptical techniques, such as electron beams or even X rays, which have wavelengths less than a nanometer, one thousandth of a micron.
But it was concentrated onto a speck a little more than one thousandth of a millimetre across and it lasted for just 30 femtoseconds (30 million billionths of a second).
The aperture will adjust from F2.9 to F8 without any prompting, and the shutter will set itself anywhere from one-thirtieth of a second to one-one thousandth of a second.
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Every hamburger comes out of a stamping machine weighing exactly 45 grams, with its thickness measured to the thousandth of a centimeter.
All other things being equal, the point of a justice system should be to identify that thousandth guy, find a way to keep him from harming other people, and give everyone else a break.
The rem can be expressed in smaller units called millirems, which equal one one-thousandth of a rem.
Now, the team has shrunk the product to the requisite thousandth of a millimetre across, which will easily fit on a chip.
After that the industry will have to move on to nonoptical techniques, such as electron beams or even X rays, which have wavelengths less than 1 nanometer, or one-thousandth of a micron.
This phenomenon is a spiral distortion of space which should if relativity is correct happen when massive bodies rotate. (In essence, such bodies drag space round with them.) Frame-dragging is predicted to cause an additional precession of one hundred-thousandth of a degree, perpendicular to that caused by the geodetic effect.
Think of it this way: if we took one-thousandth of a second of footage from the femto camera video output and slowed it down to the speed of 30 seconds per frame -- the approximate speed of a standard TV broadcast -- it would take us a lifetime to watch.
Nektar therapeutic's engineering feat--the first insulin inhaler for adult diabetics--required inventing a way to turn liquid insulin into a powder of uniform particles just 2 microns wide (one one-thousandth the width of a pinhead), each containing hundreds of millions of stable insulin molecules.
Chipmakers are getting on board now that wafer-circuitry has narrowed below 90 nanometers, or one one-thousandth the width of a human hair.
Earlier Thursday, new Alpha commander Frank Culbertson and Russian flight engineers Vladimir Dezhurov and Mikhail Tyurin beamed down a message marking the one-thousandth day in space for the first component of the space station, the Russian-built Zarya module.
"Even the two-thousandth time you deal with a bear, you have to treat it like it's the first time, " his assistant, Philippe, says.
In a country of 1.2 billion people, a country where years of staggering economic growth annually create tens of thousands of new millionaires and a recent slowdown has done little damage to a thriving luxury goods market, far less than one ten-thousandth of the population admits they are in the top tax bracket.
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