The majority of our functional brain is distributed over the outer surface layer of the brain, and to increase the area that's available for mental capacity, the brain surface is highly folded.

A hollow conducting body carries all its charge on its outer surface.

For a solid shape such as a sphere, cone, or cylinder, the area of its boundary surface is called the surface area.

The outer ring of mountains rise roughly 7 km above the surface of Mare Imbrium.

These have been processed by wet or dry methods for removing the outer pulp and mucilage, and have an intact wax layer on the outer surface.

This is a list of terrestrial lakes with a surface area of more than , ranked by area.

Ratio of area protected to maintain biological diversity to surface areas

Approximately 44,000 sq. km (21 per cent of the country's surface area) is contaminated with caesium 137 21,000 sq. km (10 per cent of the surface area) is contaminated with strontium 90 and 4,000 sq. km (2 per cent of the surface area) is contaminated with plutonium isotopes.

The outer surface of the heliosheath, where the heliosphere meets the interstellar medium, is called the heliopause.

Along with their associated islands, they cover 8.3 of the Earth's total surface area (28.4 of its land area).

Panels tend to cost more per unit of surface area than chilled slabs.

Robotic spacecraft are currently returning information from the outer regions of the solar system and roving the surface of Mars.

Since the slope of the convex lens surface increases outwards, separation of the rings gets smaller for the outer rings.

Lake surface area has decreased 11.7 percent in the period between 1908 and 2000 .

It is the largest municipality in surface area in the Papineau Regional County Municipality.

Chilled slabs cost less per unit of surface area, and are more integrated with structure.

Lorca is the municipality with the second largest surface area (after Cáceres) in Spain with .

It is the biggest freshwater lake in Argentina, with a surface area of (maximum width ).

Due to its high surface area and porous structure, drugs can be adsorbed from supercritical .

With a surface area of , Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake by area, and is also the largest tropical lake in the world.

The outer bark in older stems includes the dead tissue on the surface of the stems, along with parts of the innermost periderm and all the tissues on the outer side of the periderm.

If a change in surface height represents an isostatically compensated change in crustal thickness, the rate of change of potential energy per unit surface area is proportional to the rate of increase of average surface height.

In such animals, it is referred to as the dentary bone, and forms the body of the outer surface of the jaw.

On 26 January 2005, Rokviss was installed on the outer surface of the Station in order to test its capabilities in open space.

In large burns (over 30 of the total body surface area), there is a significant inflammatory response.

In physics and engineering, surface power density or sometimes simply specific power is power per unit area.

The absence of air makes outer space (and the surface of the Moon) ideal locations for astronomy at all wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum.

The laser energy also must be focused extremely evenly across the target's outer surface in order to collapse the fuel into a symmetric core.

North America covers an area of about 24,709,000 square kilometers (9,540,000 square miles), about 4.8 of the planet's surface or about 16.5 of its land area.

At such temperatures the solid creeps and even though the surface area changes, the volume remains approximately constant.

With a total surface area of 139,000 km2, Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American isthmus.

The DHTML Editing Control is being removed from IE7 for Windows Vista to reduce surface area for security attacks.

The Foundation would welcome support in that area from the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.

In view of these developments, framework regulations for the reliable civil as well as legitimate military use of outer space have become necessary in order to avoid outer space becoming an insecure area.

Pressure Atmospheric pressure is the force per unit area that is always applied perpendicularly to a surface by the surrounding gas.

This is a list of the 50 largest country subdivisions and dependent territories by area (including surface water) in square kilometres.

As a result of that contamination, three fourths of the island's surface area was currently unsuitable as a place to live.

The often very high surface area to volume ratio of nanoparticles provides a tremendous driving force for diffusion, especially at elevated temperatures.

The total surface area of its basin is about , the lake itself is 940 km2, and the volume is 34.0 billion m3.

Though the areal density of tape is lower than for disk drives, the available surface area on a tape is far greater.

Certain States face the likelihood of the disappearance of the whole or a significant part of their surface area for environmental reasons.

One State which will not disappear but which risks losing a significant proportion of its surface area for environmental reasons is Bangladesh.

We believe that the oceans were in the northern hemisphere, and this area in blue, which shows a depression of about four miles, was the ancient ocean area on the surface of Mars.

In fact, there have been very few logging operations in the area, the surface of the lands subject to logging amounting to approximately 1.2 per cent of the area administered by the Committee.

In general, carbon block filters are more effective at removing a larger number of contaminants, based upon the increased surface area of carbon.