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Usage examples of millionth.

One microlitre of Cyndex - and I remind you that is a millionth part of a litre - applied to naked skin will incapacitate a man in two minutes and kill in fifteen minutes.

That machine yonder detects the waves from a millionth of a millionth of a milligramme of radium.

Within it, quadrillions of quadrillions of positrons came into being and vanished in millionths of a second.

A blue supergiant someoh, twenty times larger than the sun will begin to lose mass in the form of a solar wind, at the rate of about a millionth of a solar mass per year.

An ordinary thermopile in effect, but that each element is about one ten millionth of an inch in diameter, and weighs about one ten billionth of an ounce.

An ordinary thermopile in effect, but that each element is a-bout one ten millionth of an inch in diameter, and weighs about one ten billionth of an ounce.

In this way the dilution of the original millionth of a grain of medicine contained in the grain of powder operated on is carried successively to the billionth, trillionth, quadrillionth, quintillionth, and very often much higher fractional divisions.

But he should have remembered that at every successive dilution he lays aside or throws away ninety-nine hundredths of the fluid on which he is operating, and that, although he begins with a drop, he only prepares a millionth, billionth, trillionth, and similar fractions of it, all of which, added together, would constitute but a vastly minute portion of the drop with which he began.

Russian-born George Gamow, who had worked on the theory of nuclear synthesis in the 1930s and been involved in the Manhattan Project, conjectured that if an atomic bomb could, in a fraction of a millionth of a second, create elements detectable at the test site in the desert years later, then perhaps an explosion on a colossal scale could have produced the elements making up the universe as we know it.

I asked, giving Pax another scritch and wondering for the millionth time whether Ixil got the same scritch through their neural link.

The pulse is the same diameter as the pencil and lasts only a few millionths of a second.

Those topsy-turvy atoms proved to be nonviable beyond a few millionths of a micro-second, and it gradually became clear that even in this short lifetime the time in which they lived was running backwards.

He then selected a particular class of neurons, recognizable by their long axons, measured the length of each dendritic branch and counted the spines on each, which he then calculated as number of spines per um - that is, millionth of a metre - of dendrite.

As our most powerful particle accelerators can reach energies only on the order of a thousand times the proton mass, less than a millionth of a billionth of the Planck energy, we are very far from being able to search in the laboratory for any of these new particles predicted by string theory.

In that millionth of a second, while ten slim Banshees roared in from the sea to resume command of the sky, Harry Brubaker understood in some fragmentary way the purpose of his being in Korea.