10 micrometres
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
- 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
- 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
- 50 µm — typical length of a human liver cell, an average-sized body cell
- 70 to 180 µm — thickness of paper
Notes
- ↑ Graham T. Smith (2002). Industrial metrology. Springer. p. 253. ISBN 978-1-85233-507-6.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 IST - Innovative Sintering Technologies Ltd. "Fibreshape applications". Retrieved 2008-12-04.
Histogram of cotton thickness
- ↑ Morton Lippmann (2000). Environmental Toxicants: Human Exposures and Their Health Effects. John Wiley and Sons. p. 453. ISBN 0-471-29298-2. ISBN 978-0-471-29298-2. Retrieved 2008-12-04.
20 µm .. 5 µm
- ↑ According to The Physics Factbook, the diameter of human hair ranges from 17 to 181 µm. Ley, Brian (1999). "Width of a Human Hair". The Physics Factbook.
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