They are available in numerous sizes, from large to miniature, but are usually less than 1 cm in diameter.

What was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine. With newly designed graphics from Gapminder, Rosling shows us the magic that pops up when economic growth and electricity turn a boring wash day into an intellectual day of reading.

The distance, or radius, of the electron from the field line at any time is known as its Larmor radius.

Inside the lipid envelope is a capsid of 40 nm in diameter.

formula_2where is the area of a circle and is the radius.

It is about 40 km (25 miles) in diameter.

The island is 10 kilometers wide, and its 1357 meter high summit consists of a large 1.5 kilometer wide crater, with a small lake on its Northeast side.

Most named objects in this list have a diameter of 500 km or more.

Most viruses that have been studied have a diameter between 20 and 300 nanometres.

The flow is arranged so that there is a large separation between cells relative to their diameter.

The flowers are in diameter, yellow, and produced in dense clusters.

When the effect of the small radius of curvature of the wire itself is overcome, the lower secondary coil behaves as a conductor of large radius of curvature, corresponding to that of the drum.

This is the Keck observatory. It hosts two telescopes with a mirror 10 meters, which is roughly the diameter of a tennis court.

The planet also has a radius that is 1.17 times that of Jupiter and a density of 1.68 grams cm3.

Imperial Russia used a system derived by dividing the circumference of a circle into chords of the same length as the radius.

Characteristics Kepler 40 is an F type star that is 1.48 times the mass of the Sun and 2.13 times its radius.

Kepler 40 is the sixth known planetary host star with a radius of more than 1.8 times that of the Sun.

Its diameter increases from about 1.6 mm within the eye to 3.5 mm in the orbit to 4.5 mm within the cranial space.

And if you're in the half mile radius of where this bomb went off, you have a 90 percent chance of not making it.

To do this, steel pipes measuring 60 cm in diameter were inserted into the ground, slowly releasing the methane six months prior to drilling.

Henri Mouhot noted that most of the blocks had holes 2.5 cm in diameter and 3 cm deep, with more holes on the larger blocks.

When it breaks down, the car of an unlicensed driver is towed to a lot, where it is rarely claimed.

Below the photosphere is a layer of supergranules up to 30,000 kilometers in diameter with lifespans of up to 24 hours.

Look at that central building right in the middle of the picture that's the 130 foot diameter library, that is exactly the size of the base of the spaceship.

Galactic context The Solar System is located in the Milky Way, a barred spiral galaxy with a diameter of about 100,000 light years containing about 200 billion stars.

Structure The spherical virus particles (virions) of Togaviridae have a diameter of 50 to 70 nm and are covered by a lipid membrane (viral envelope), derived from the host cell membrane.

It is the sixth known host star with a radius over 1.8 times that of the Sun and a transiting planet, after stars that include Kepler 5 and Kepler 7.

It's almost as if somebody came into your home and rewired your walls so that the next time you turned on the light switch, the toilet flushed three doors down, or your dishwasher went on, or your computer monitor turned off.

The city has a population of approximately 760,000 whereas about 8 million people live within a radius of its main square.

M75 is at a distance of about 67,500 light years away from Earth and its apparent size on the sky translates to a true radius of some 67 light years.

The size of the dust in the rings varies, but the cross sectional area is greatest for nonspherical particles of radius about 15 μm in all rings except the halo.

The largest monolithic mirror in use are currently the two primary mirrors of the Large Binocular Telescope, each with a diameter of 8.4 meters.

And this was an animal that was struck by a ship in Nova Scotia, Canada being towed in, where they did a necropsy to confirm the cause of death, which was indeed a ship strike.

In about 5 billion years, when the Sun enters this phase, it will expand to a maximum radius of roughly , 250 times its present size.

We've seen the creation of small computers in the '70s and early '80s, and who would have thought back then that every single person would not have just one computer but probably 20, in your home, and in not just your P.C. but in every device in your washing machine, your cell phone.

The universal belief in a flat Earth is confirmed by a contemporary Chinese encyclopedia from 1609 illustrating a flat Earth extending over the horizontal diametral plane of a spherical heaven.

The size of the neighborhoods (or spheres of influence) vary with radius formula_73 formula_74where formula_75 is the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit relative to the Sun formula_76 and formula_77 are the masses of the planet and Sun, respectively.

All these temporarily made comet 17P the largest (by radius) object in the Solar System although its nucleus is estimated to be only about 3.4 km in diameter.

They're all big.

Big mistake.

A huge loss.

Although such impacts happen very infrequently, even objects smaller than several kilometres in diameter cause significant damage when they hit the Earth at random intervals of hundreds or thousands of years.

Kubrick s 900 foot wide wheel rotated in such a fashion as to produce a sense of gravity equal to that felt on the moon, to which many of the station s fictional occupants were bound.

And they're nice big pages too.

It's a huge list.