Sentences with phrase «tenth of a human hair»

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According to InfiniLED's website, the startup's ILED display technology is powered by millions of tiny LED chips, each roughly one - tenth the width of a strand of human hair, that are assembled on electronic circuits.

The flat, wingless insects are tiny (between one and two millimeters long — less than a tenth of an inch), suck on human blood, and cement their eggs, or nits, to our hair.

We can not see objects much thinner than a human hair (a fraction of a millimeter) or resolve motions quicker than a blink (a tenth of a second).

An array of QDs, analogous to the sand in the acoustic example, are embedded in the slice, whose thickness is less than one - tenth of one percent that of a human hair.

The new t - ray laser, described in the 9 May issue of Nature, is only about 10 micrometers thick, or a tenth the width of a human hair.

A one - ounce piece can be beaten into a translucent sheet five - millionths of an inch thick or drawn out into 50 miles of wire five micrometers thick — one - tenth the diameter of a human hair.

«It's very difficult to do this because of the minute size of the neurons,» which are roughly one - tenth as thick as a human hair.

The largest human cells are about the diameter of a human hair, but most human cells are smaller — perhaps one - tenth of the diameter of a human hair.

A typical human cell might be one - tenth of the diameter of your hair (10 microns).

The main culprits are small particulates — pollutants less than one tenth the thickness of a human hair that are produced by incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and biomass.

The ranging system is sensitive enough to detect separation changes as small as 10 micrometres (approximately one - tenth the width of a human hair) over a distance of 220 kilometers.