ablation zone in a sentence

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1. The equilibrium line separates the ablation zone and the accumulation zone; it is the altitude where the amount of new snow gained by accumulation is equal to the amount of ice lost through ablation.
2. Corneal optical aberrations after photorefractive keratectomy with a larger ablation zone and a transition zone are less pronounced and more physiologic than those associated with first-generation ( 5 mm ) ablations with no transition zone.
3. The formula states that the depth of the ablation ( in micrometres ) per diopter of refractive change is equal to the square of the diameter of the optical ablation zone measured in millimeters, divided by three.
4. If the amount of frozen precipitation in the accumulation zone exceeds the quantity of glacial ice lost due to melting or in the ablation zone a glacier will advance; if the accumulation is less than the ablation, the glacier will retreat.
5. A high-speed camera used by geophysicist Hans Stenbaek-Nielsen of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks snapped 1, 000 frames a second of " ablation zones " _ growing clouds of meteoric plasma and dust whose hot glow generates the impression of " shooting stars " in a night sky.