Length shifting - MicroMeters in your hands (original) (raw)
| Micrometers in your hands 10-6 meters per mm (Magnification of ×103) | **10 [ -6 | -3 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 18 ]** If sugar-grains were tables... 10-3 meters per meter |
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 1 um |
 10 um |
 100 um |
 1000 um |
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| 10-6 m | 10-5 m | 10-4 m | 10-3 m |
 Bacteria |
 Blood Cell |
Your hair ~80 um diameter Honeybee's knee's diameter ~200 um paper thickness ~150 um parasitic mite |  Sugar grain Hypodermic needle diameter |
Doables: Images too big. Shrink size & colors, interlace. Remove stomata? Where did bee's knee's measurement/image come from? A hair louse might be nice.
Notes: Human hair original image[link broken] from Los Alamos MST[link broken]. Stomata original image[link broken] from IKE's General Electron Micrography images[link broken]. Paper thickness: 80 um - lightweight to 330 um - index card. A table[link broken] with caliper in inches.
History: 2003-Feb-03 Repaired links - 5 flagged. 2001.Apr.20 Added link to `How Big Are Things?'. 1998.Aug.11 Fixed broken hair url. 1998.Jun.17 Corrected error with magnitude boundaries (3.333->3.162). 1997.Sep.15 Added paper thickness. 1997.Sep.12 Added hair, stomata.