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Human hair is usually between 60 and 120 micrometers wide.

The larger form may be up to nine micrometers in size.

Most bacteria range in size from 0.15 to 4 micrometers.

If the artifact changes course even a micrometer, I want to know about it.

As a reference, the diameter of a human hair is about 100 micrometers.

The scientists can see features on the scale of a few micrometers.

You can see through metals if they are less than 0.1 micrometer thick.

They typically range between 1 and 5 micrometers in length.

These typically have a mean diameter of about 0.7 micrometers.

"We would have had to use a micrometer to get some of the specs," he said.

The seeds are very tiny, measuring about 7 by 28 micrometers.

By definition it is 5 micrometers or smaller in diameter.

And we had to say to them, 'Now you are going to learn to read a micrometer.

It will be sensitive to light from 0.6 to 27 micrometers in wavelength.

Displays are very thin, typically 30 micrometer, or about 1/3 of a human hair.

He must have carried a micrometer about with him.

They are about 10 micrometers across and are made of six cells.

A micrometer is used to adjust and calibrate the system.

Let's assume you have found an exceptionally fine hair with a width of 60 micrometers.

Occasionally he broke out his micrometer, measured a blade or two.

About seven hundred degrees, that's why there's peak power in the five micrometer band.

In many cases, a deposit even a few micrometers thick can be troublesome.

It is one of the smallest living organisms at 0.2 micrometers in diameter.

The length of a single dendrite is usually several hundred micrometers.

Most of these particles are very tiny (about 1 micrometre across).

The resolution was sufficient for down to 2 micrometre production.

These sensors detect movements on the order of a micrometre.

Lambswool can be in the low to mid 20s micrometre range.

Such particles are very small (generally below a micrometre in diameter).

These operate well between 0.6 and 5 micrometre wavelengths.

In either case, thicknesses ranging up to 1 micrometre are readily available.

For sterile filtration, a typical size is 1 micrometre or less.

The size of the tracer is around a micrometre.

Its first product was a 0.35 micrometre part for Altera.

Film thicknesses are often in the 500 micrometre range.

The paint contains tiny synthetic flakes about one micrometre thick.

This scale continues to the 210s at 13.25 micrometre or finer.

A two stage 0.5 micrometre activated carbon filter should also be considered among other methods available.

The spores are ovoid-elliptic with warts up to 1 micrometre high.

Facilities to fabricate advanced devices in 0.35 micrometre range are planned.

The aluminium ribbon was less than one micrometre thick.

The particles are plate-shaped with an average diameter of approximately one micrometre.

Therefore the focal volume ( 1 cubic micrometre) contains 6 10 molecules.

The nucleus is about 1 micrometre in diameter.

The modal size is in the 60-90 micrometre range, and the shapes are almost perfect spheres.

It was manufactured using a 0.25 micrometre process, ran at 2.2 volts, and had 9.3 million transistors.

Final format used: 24 micrometre square data bits.

A micrometre is often used as a measurement for cells like bacteria because bacteria are very small also.

It has been proposed to extend the scale to 250s at 11.25 micrometre or finer.