6 sentences with 'millimetres'
Example sentences and phrases with the word millimetres and other words derived from it.
• « The young of these animals are only about six millimetres long, and as soon as they are born they crawl over their mother's belly to reach the marsupium, the pouch that serves as an incubator for marsupials. »
• « -We don't get diamonds larger than 15 millimetres in diameter," he explains. The crushers are computer programmed to reduce the ore to 22 millimetres or slightly smaller. »
• « The perforated film, 35 millimetres wide, ran at a rate of 16 frames per second, and a lens projected and magnified the images. »
• « For example, a star the size of our planet could be compressed into a black hole just 12.7 millimetres across: still too big to evaporate in the lifetime of our universe. »
• « In 1938, on Rabua Hill in Iran, this researcher found vase-shaped vessels with a copper cylinder inside. They were 15 centimetres high and the copper tube was 26 millimetres in diameter and 19 centimetres high. Inside the copper tube protruded a 1-centimetre iron wand. These objects were reminiscent - with surprising accuracy - of modern-day electric batteries. The Ministry of Information in Baghdad officially reported that these batteries were dated to between 227 and 126 BC. »
• « The diameter of the entrance of these ancient indigenous bone pipes is around 16 millimetres, a logical size for a human mouth. In contrast, the mouth of two of the lithics is twice as large. This suggests that a conical mouthpiece was added to them. »