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3 unusual facts about micrometre


Ardaite

Ardaite occurs as 50 µm fine-grained aggregates of acicular crystals associated with galena, pyrostilpnite, anglesite, nadorite, and Cl-bearing robinsonite and semseyite, in the Madjarovo polymetallic ore deposit in Bulgaria.

Artecoll

The microspheres are 32–40 micrometers in diameter (500 micrometers could fit in the period at the end of this sentence).

Artificial neural membrane

The greatest interest in ANM structures surround their potential as open architecture environments for the integration of microscale and nanoscale devices.


Axial piston pump

Hydraulic fluid that has been used is always cooled and passed through micrometre-sized filters before recirculating through the pump.

Flik

In radio astronomy, the unit flik was coined by a group at Lockheed in Palo Alto, California as a substitute for the SI derived unit W cm−2 sr−1 µm−1, or watts divided by centimeters squared, steradians, and micrometers.

Frit compression

The frit-compression system was adapted from a Solid phase extraction (SPE) column, where a suspension of carbon nanotubes is squeezed between two polypropylene frits (70 micrometre pore diameter) inside a syringe column.

Gas Electron Multiplier

Typical GEMs are constructed of 50-70 micrometre thick Kapton foil clad in copper on both sides.

Magnetic trap

Magnetic tweezers, a trap using a magnetic field to trap micrometre-seized ferromagnetic beads

Ostreococcus tauri

Ostreococcus tauri is a unicellular species of marine green alga about 0.8 micrometres (μm) in diameter, the smallest free-living (non-symbiotic) eukaryote yet described.

Phage major coat protein

These bacteriophages are flexible rods, about one to two micrometres long and six nm in diameter, with a helical shell of protein subunits surrounding a DNA core.

Scutellinia scutellata

 scutellata has asci of approximately 300 µm by 25 µm in size, and releases elliptical spores measuring 18 to 19 µm by 10 to 12 µm.

Transmeta Efficeon

The first generation (TM8600) was manufactured using a TSMC 0.13 micrometre process and produced at speeds up to 1.2 GHz.


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