Sentences with phrase «width as human hair»

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This new healthcare tech could be even more groundbreaking, as scientists are working to shrink the sensors to microns wide, about the width of a human hair.

As DNA passes through a tiny opening in the pore — an opening that is just 0.00000012 centimeters wide, or 1/10, 000 th the width of a human hair — the current shifts based on the sequence of DNA letters.

The sulfuric acid condensed into minute droplets — each two hundred times finer than the width of a human hair — that could easily remain suspended in the air as an aerosol cloud.

By measuring the distance between the two satellites to within the width of a strand of human hair as they orbit the planet, researchers can record changes in Earth's gravitational pull that result from water moving across its surface.

«That's like noticing that one person is taller than another by the width of a human hair as they walk past you.»

As part of the process, team members shaved off 50 microns of sample at a time — about half the width of a human hair — and photographed the polished rock surface each time.

These modifications give SIR - PAM a depth of field 32 times larger than what PAM could achieve while also improving its resolution to as small as 90 nanometers (1 / 1000th the width of a human hair).

State - of - the - art atomic force microscopes (AFMs) are designed to capture images of structures as small as a fraction of a nanometer — a million times smaller than the width of a human hair.

The layers can be as little as 20 microns in height or about a quarter of the width of a human hair.

The deepest hole they are talking about drilling is something like the width of a human hair on that bowling ball and the center of our earth is the same temperature as the suface of the sun.

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.