diameter
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By carefully controlling the laser's power and beam diameter, the researchers can ionize a narrow region of air, stripping electrons from atoms and molecules to produce plasma.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026
Upon arrival, the Fire Department located five separate spot fires, all about five feet in diameter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
And it has to come from a place that looks localized to the mouth, and it has to be the same diameter of the actor’s mouth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
When the Kimberly-Clark team studied it, the length of its fibers and their slender diameter stood out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
He started from scratch, replacing Edlefsen’s lumps of metal and sealing wax with a vacuum chamber fashioned from brass in the shape of a flat cylinder four inches in diameter.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Which is to say, Porsche invented an entirely new flat-six—different bore diameters and everything—just to clear 11 centimeters under the engine cover.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
PM 2.5 refers to the level of tiny, hazardous particles - with diameters that are 2.5 micrometres or smaller - that can enter bloodstreams though the lungs.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2024
They have up to 24 arms and can grow to diameters of more than three feet.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
The larger, so-called coarse particles, have diameters between 2.5 and 10 micrometers; some examples of this type of particulate matter include wind-blown dust, fly ash and animal or vegetal particles.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2023
The halo when complete consists of two large circles whose diameters are constant, 45 and 92 degrees.
From Reading the Weather by Thomas Morris Longstreth
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