submicron
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of submicron
Example Sentences
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Generally, manufacturing synthetic materials on this submicron length scale is a common challenge.
From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024
Brown was running an instrument that could detect what Coggon’s could not: submicron aerosols such as nitroaromatics.
From Scientific American • Sep. 12, 2022
And some of it—no one really knows yet how much—will be in the form of submicron particles that linger in the air for long periods rather than rapidly falling out.
From Scientific American • Jul. 29, 2022
“We started with submicron flakes, barely seen even in an optical microscope,” he says.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 15, 2014
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