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  2. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    10.16 cm = 1.016 dm – 1 hand used in measuring height of horses (4 inches) 12 cm = 1.2 dm – diameter of a compact disc (CD) (= 120 mm) 15 cm = 1.5 dm – length of a Bic pen with cap on; 22 cm = 2.2 dm – diameter of a typical association football (soccer ball) 30 cm = 3 dm – typical school-use ruler length (= 300 mm)

  3. List of measuring instruments - Wikipedia

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    A measuring instrument for radio waves: the 64-meter radio telescope at Parkes Observatory, Australia, as seen in 1969, when it was used to receive live televised video from Apollo 11. Considerations related to electric charge dominate electricity and electronics. Electrical charges interact via a field. That field is called electric field.If ...

  4. Moment magnitude scale - Wikipedia

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    It has become the standard scale used by seismological authorities like the United States Geological Survey [4] for reporting large earthquakes (typically M > 4), replacing the local magnitude (M L ) and surface-wave magnitude (M s ) scales. Subtypes of the moment magnitude scale (M ww , etc.) reflect different ways of estimating the seismic ...

  5. Richter scale - Wikipedia

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    The Richter scale [1] (/ ˈ r ɪ k t ər /), also called the Richter magnitude scale, Richter's magnitude scale, and the Gutenberg–Richter scale, [2] is a measure of the strength of earthquakes, developed by Charles Richter in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg, and presented in Richter's landmark 1935 paper, where he called it the "magnitude scale". [3]

  6. The Scale of the Universe - Wikipedia

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    Measurement given in The Scale of the Universe Measurement given in The Scale of the Universe 2; Meter: 10 0 meters 10 0 meters Meterstick: 1 meter — Dodo bird — 1 meter Rafflesia — 1 meter FM radio wavelength 1 meter 1 meter Human: 1.7 meters 1.7 meters Wandering albatross — 2.3 meters Floor to ceiling 2.5 meters — Sunflower — 2.5 ...

  7. Surface roughness - Wikipedia

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    There are four distinct classes of SSR, each one of them representing a characteristic vertical length scale; the first class includes microrelief variations from individual soil grains to aggregates on the order of 0.053–2.0 mm; the second class consists of variations due to soil clods ranging between 2 and 100 mm; the third class of soil ...

  8. Slide rule - Wikipedia

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    For example, aligning the rightmost 1 on the C scale with 2 on the LL2 scale, 3 on the C scale lines up with 8 on the LL3 scale. To extract a cube root using a slide rule with only C/D and A/B scales, align 1 on the B cursor with the base number on the A scale (taking care as always to distinguish between the lower and upper halves of the A scale).

  9. Snow - Wikipedia

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    0.1–0.8 g/cm 3: Mechanical properties ... the most important of which is the low-pressure area, which typically incorporate warm and cold fronts as part of their ...