1 micrometre
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To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists some items with lengths between 10−6 and 10−5 m (between 1 and 10 micrometres, or µm).
- 1 µm — the side of square of area 10−12 m²
- 1 µm — edge of cube of volume 1 fL
- 1 µm — the limit of resolution for conventional Photolithography techniques
- 1-10 µm — diameter of typical bacterium
- 1.55 µm — wavelength of light used in optical fibre
- 3-4 µm — size of a typical yeast cell
- 6 µm — anthrax spore
- 6-8 µm — diameter of a human red blood cell
- 7 µm — diameter of the nucleus of typical eukaryotic cell
- 7 µm — width of strand of spider web [1]
- 8 µm — width of a chloroplast
- about 10 µm — size of a fog, mist or cloud water droplet
