In actual practice the average is a little over one pound for each one-half square foot of surface area.
As a general thing well-constructed machines will average a supporting capacity of one pound for every one-half square foot of surface area.
Just what this increase in surface area should be is problematical as experienced aviators disagree, but as a general proposition it may be placed at from three to four times the area of a 20-foot glider.
This direct relationship between particle size, surface area, and water-holding capacity is so essential to understanding plant growth that the surface areas presented by various sizes of soil particles have been calculated.
Surface Area of One Gram of Soil Particles Particle type Diameter of Number of particles particles Surface area in mm per gm in sq.
As particle size decreases, the amount of surface area goes up just about as rapidly as the number series used a few paragraphs back to illustrate the multiplication of microorganisms.
But heaps made exclusively of large particles not only present little surface area to microorganisms, they permit so much airflow that they are rapidly cooled.
Although compost heaps are made of much larger particles than soil, the relationship between particle size and surface area is the same.
This island group covers a surface areaof 370 square leagues, and it's made up of some sixty subgroups, among which we noted the Gambier group, which is a French protectorate.
From this point on, it was an issue of cutting out a piece equal in surface area to the Nautilus's waterline.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "surface area" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
