10 micrometres
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A clickable mosaic of objects
at scales within direct human experience, from the micrometric (10−6 m, top left) to the multi-kilometric (105 m, bottom right).
at scales within direct human experience, from the micrometric (10−6 m, top left) to the multi-kilometric (105 m, bottom right).
Comparison of sizes of semiconductor manufacturing process nodes with some microscopic objects and visible light wavelengths. At this scale, the width of a human hair is about 10 times that of the image.[1]
To help compare different orders of magnitude, this page lists lengths between 10−5 m and 10−4 m (10 µm and 100 µm).
- 10 µm – width of cotton fibre[2]
- 10 µm – transistor width of the Intel 4004, the world's first commercial microprocessor
- 10 µm – mean longest dimension of a human red blood cell[citation needed]
- 5–20 µm – dust mite excreta[3]
- 10.6 µm – wavelength of light emitted by a carbon dioxide laser
- 15 µm – width of silk fibre[citation needed]
- 17 µm – minimum width of a strand of human hair[4]
- 17.6 µm – one twip, a unit of length in typography
- 10 to 55 µm – width of wool fibre[2]
- 25.4 µm – 1/1000 inch, commonly referred to as 1 mil in the U.S. and 1 thou in the UK
- 50 µm – typical length of Euglena gracilis, a flagellate protist[citation needed]
- 50 µm – typical length of a human liver cell, an average-sized body cell[citation needed]
- 70 to 180 µm – thickness of paper
Notes
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