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Example sentences for: cylinder

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This scaling is because the rate constant for crossing a membrane or other barrier is equal to the permeability of that barrier multiplied by the area-to-volume ratio, and the area-to-volume ratio for an elongated cylinder is 2/(radius).
John Bourke writes about an ancient custom in Mexico still used in the late nineteenth century: a merchant kept a tin cylinder for each customer, and after each purchase he’d drop a bean into it.
These roughly suce, together with the hot gas compressed in the cylinder head, for work to happen as the hot gas expands and pushes on the piston.
Cell division can then be thought of as a series of intermediate cell shapes (sphere, cylinder and dumbbell) that are produced along this pathway of cleaving the mother cell.
This means that we are evaluating outbreaks with a circle radius size anywhere between 0 km (one zip code only) and 5 km, and a time length (cylinder height) of 1 to 7 d.