Example Sentences

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David A Lindon, from Bournemouth, Dorset, says his latest sculpture, The Yellow Smiley Face, is "invisible to the human eye", with measurements of only 11.037 by 12.330 microns.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2025

The new version, already tested in rats, may have pixels as small as 20 microns wide, with 10,000 pixels on each chip.

From Science Daily • Oct. 22, 2025

The dust's fine grains, just one or two microns in size, makes it easy to inhale and difficult to remove.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2025

In herU.K. lab, Onyeaka is growing Chlorella vulgaris, a green single-celled algae about 2 to 10 microns in diameter — roughly the width of a strand of spider silk.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2025

A typical paramecium, for instance, is about two microns wide, 0.002 millimeters, which is really very small.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson