Sentences with phrase «hundredth of a millimetre»
A detailed cross-section of a very young beech tree, which is only one hundredth of a millimetre thick, won the 1994 Nikon International Small World Competition last month.
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In the terrestrial dust devils, the team found that around 60 - 70 % of all the fine dust particles (with diameters up to three hundredths of a millimetre) appear to stay in suspension.
A beam of light is confined by total internal reflection to travel inside such an optical fibre, whose thickness may be anywhere between one hundredth of a millimetre and a few millimetres.