This so - called carbon nanotube could be likened to an unimaginably long
garden hose: a hollow tube just a nanometer or so in
diameter but perhaps millions
of times as long as it is wide.
A normal trachea is like a radiator
hose or reinforced
garden hose with regularly spaced rings
of cartilage that keep the airway open, and a common
diameter from the upper airways to the lungs.