Dow Chemical says its green investments have saved 1.8 quadrillion British thermal units of energy since 1994& enough to power every home in California for 20 months. 陶氏化学表示,绿色投资1994年以来已为其节约能源达1.8千万亿英热单位&足以为美国加州所有家庭供电20个月。
The spectrometer can measure chromium, iron, copper and other elements to several parts per quadrillion. 质谱仪对铬、铁、铜等元素的检测精度可以达到千万亿分之一的数量级。
The technique is so sensitive that it can detect a single radioactive carbon atom hiding among a quadrillion ( one million billion) ordinary ones. 这项技术非常敏感,甚至能够在十的十五次方(一千万亿)个普通碳原子中找到一个放射性碳原子。
The odds of this has been calculated at one in eighteen septillion and luck like this could only come once every quadrillion years. 这概率相当于是一比一千的八次方,也就是说一万亿年才有一次的机会。