Sentences with phrase «width of a hair»

Scientists still know very little about how early embryos develop, due to their small size (the width of a hair) and inaccessibility in the womb.

These extra dimensions would be imperceptible in our macro world but might have a detectable influence on gravity at scales of less than the width of a hair.

However, our eyes can not see something much less than the width of a hair (about a tenth of a millimeter) without the aid of a magnifying device.

«These aggregates are organized as fibers that are 500 times smaller than the width of a hair, which is quite a challenge.»

The spacing must be accurate to the nearest 0.05 micrometres — one - thousandth the width of a hair.

And so they are around ten microns in size, and the width of your hair is around a hundred microns, so about the tenth of the width of a hair,» stated Mullen.

Each brain slice is approximately 70 microns thick, about the width of a hair.

From my quick research on nanoparticles, it seems to me that the problem is that because they are so tiny (line up 10,000 of them to get the width of a hair), they easily pass through the human skin barrier, get into the circulatory system, and cause havoc in unsuspecting victims.

Snag a strand of hair and divide the width of the hair 100,000 times... that small.