10 micrometres
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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
- 10 µm — transistor width of the Intel 4004, the world's first commercial microprocessor
- 10-24 µm — dust mite excreta ¹
- 10.6 µm — wavelength of light emitted by a carbon dioxide laser
- 15 µm — width of silk fibre
- 16 µm — diameter of a micromirror in a typical Digital micromirror device
- 17 µm — length of a tobacco mosaic virus
- 17.6 µm — one twip, a unit of length in typography
- 20 µm — width of wool fibre
- 25.4 µm — 1/1000th inch, commonly referred to as 1 mil in the U.S. and 1 thou in the UK
- 30-50 µm — diameter of a minicolumn in the human cortex
- 50 µm — typical length of Euglena gracilis, a flagellate protist
- 50 µm — typical length of a human liver cell, an average-sized body cell
- 80 µm — average width of human hair (ranges from 18 to 180 µm)
- 91 µm — the size of the Earth if the Sun is scaled to the size of a marble (1cm).
Distances longer than 100 µm Called a decamicron
