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Microns in sentence

21 examples of Microns in a sentence

This is 20 microns thin, so this is about a baby hair's width.
You maybe notice this scale bar, and it's 100 microns for the tower bridge and 20 microns for the fat man.
For comparison, the diameter of a human hair is around 50 microns.
It's created depositing layers of about four microns.
At certain wavelengths, in particular between eight and 13 microns, our atmosphere has what's known as a transmission window.
It is a structure with a few microns, which is an internal wonder.
Two microns.
This dead zone is on the order of tens of microns thick, so that's two or three diameters of a red blood cell, right at the window interface that remains a liquid, and we pull this object up, and as we talked about in a Science paper, as we change the oxygen content, we can change the dead zone thickness.
Moore's Law has driven things from 10 microns and below.
We're really good at that, but it's actually very hard to make things from 10 microns to 1,000 microns, the mesoscale.
Now, this has to be made very precisely, literally, the petals to microns and they have to deploy to millimeters.
If you take a branch from one of these corals and polish it up, this is about 100 microns across.
Nanotechnology allows us to shrink the parts that make up the detector from the width of a human hair, which is 100 microns, to a thousand times smaller, which is 100 nanometers.
Just for comparison's sake, the diameter of an average strand of hair is about 100 microns.
So to get around that, what I do is, I put my camera on a rail that I can automate to move 10 microns in between each shot.
The bubbles that are trapped inside those inks vary between a few millimeters, a few microns or even a few nanometers in size.
And his mouth must be probably about three microns.
It lets you work from microns and microseconds on up, and they exploded around the world.
It's just six microns on a side.
Airborne pollutants, especially fine particles (smaller than 2.5 microns, or roughly the width of a strand of a spider web), enter deep into the lungs and from there enter the blood stream, causing cardiopulmonary disease, cancer, and possibly premature births.
Ever since the publication of Harvard’s “Six Cities” study in 1993, scientists and public-health officials have been aware of the links between mortality and fine particulate matter, or PM2.5 (airborne particles with a diameter of less than 2.5 microns).