1 micrometre
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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 some items with lengths between 10−6 and 10−5 m (between 1 and 10 micrometres, or µm).
- ~0.7–300 µm – wavelength of infrared radiation
- 1 µm – the side of square of area 10−12 m2
- 1 µm – edge of cube of volume 10−18 m3 (1 fL)
- 1–10 µm – diameter of a typical bacterium
- 1.55 µm – wavelength of light used in optical fibre
- 3–4 µm – size of a typical yeast cell
- 5 µm – length of a typical human spermatozoon's head [2]
- 6 µm – anthrax spore
- 7 µm – diameter of the nucleus of a typical eukaryotic cell
- about 7 μm – diameter of human red blood cells [3]
- 3–8 µm – width of strand of spider web silk[4]
- 8 µm – width of a chloroplast
- 9 µm – thickness of the tape in a 120-minute compact cassette.
- about 10 µm – size of a fog, mist or cloud water droplet
Notes
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- ↑ DNA From The Beginning, section 6: Genes are real things., "Amination" section, final slide
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