Sentences with phrase «several micrometres»
With length of several micrometres the wires can exceed the length of the cells by far, but their diameter is only a few nanometres.
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The wires stretch out for several micrometres, longer than a single cell.
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Lars Peter Nielsen and his colleagues at Aarhus University in Denmark have found that tens of thousands of electric bacteria can join together to form daisy chains that carry electrons over several centimetres — a huge distance for a bacterium only 3 or 4 micrometres long.