How to Use micron in a Sentence

micron

noun

• Here is a micron-size cube from the wood of an Elm tree.
  — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
• The field of view is 410 microns wide, about size of a sugar crystal.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 May 2023
• Most bacteria are 1 to 10 microns in length, and the gaps in the woody tissues are small enough to catch them.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 23 Dec. 2019
• Most bacteria are one to 10 microns in length, and the gaps in the woody tissues are small enough to catch them.
  — Tim MacWelch, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2019
• At ten microns, these compounds are small enough to enter the lungs.
  — Diego Lasarte and Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 7 June 2023
• To get a sense of how small a micron is, consider this: A strand of hair is 50 to 70 microns.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2023
• The coronavirus has been found in tiny aerosols — even smaller than 1 micron — that can stay in the air for more than 12 hours.
  — Chronicle Advice Team, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Aug. 2022
• The study filtered for microplastics larger than 250 microns, or the width of about three strands of hair.
  — Cari Spencer, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
• These droplets can be as small as 0.5 microns, invisible to the naked eye.
  — oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2020
• Each ridge is only a few microns tall, or a few hundredths of the thickness of human hair.
  — Partha Banerjee, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2024
• The test-mass sphere is fixed to one end of a thin rod that is suspended at its midpoint by a four-micron-thick quartz fiber.
  — Ben Brubaker, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2021
• Getting 12 in one game and then being shut out in the next two is just a micron less effecient.
  — Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive, 5 Mar. 2023
• The moon can appear blue when there are particles in the air that are of the right size (one micron wide) to filter out red light, says NASA.
  — Terri Robertson, Country Living, 28 Aug. 2023
• The surface of your skin has fine grooves called sulci cutis that are, on average, tens of microns deep.
  — Ashok Prasad, The Conversation, 26 June 2023
• This goes back to those wavelengths that are slightly longer or shorter than 15 microns.
  — Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
• The outer layer was full of micron-sized holes that open at the same temperature.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2020
• For comparison, the reddest red your eyes can see is less than 1 micron, so these are well out into the IR.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 14 Jan. 2011
• And because the device is so thin, just a few microns thick, it could be embedded anywhere.
  — Tracy Staedter, Fox News, 29 June 2017
• The smallest particle a human eye can see is about 40 microns.
  — Stephen Leahy, National Geographic, 15 Apr. 2019
• Most infections start with water droplets, tiny globes of water 5 microns or less in size.
  — USA Today, 25 Mar. 2020
• Not only does this add flexibility in what can be studied, the plane of study shrunk down to three microns.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 26 Nov. 2018
• The worst threat comes from tiny particles, known as PM2.5, that are 2.5 microns or less in diameter.
  — Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
• In my shrinking life, PXE has shifted my perception of the domestic task, one micron at a time.
  — Sam Harper, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2022
• Wang’s team is making tiny GaN lasers the size of a micron — which is 1/100th the size of a human hair and too small to see with the naked eye — that can be used in microscopes to make research more precise.
  — Angela Chen, The Verge, 1 Nov. 2018
• The researchers successfully produced silk films 3 to 300 nanometers thick on chips and etched them with features up to a few microns wide.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Jan. 2024
• An author of an MIT study that examined how tiny micron-scale aerosols can linger in the air are debunking claims made about their research.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 29 Apr. 2021
• An ocean of translucent balls, each roughly a fifth of a micron in diameter, loomed into view.
  — Jakob Vinther, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2017
• To test those predictions, Hu and his colleagues placed a tiny piece of boron arsenide less than 100 microns thick in the gap between two diamonds.
  — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 14 Mar. 2023
• The aim of Argonne's April test was to use the Oleo Sponge to remove oil sheen, a coating of oil on water that is generally only one micron thick.
  — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 16 Aug. 2018
• Microfiltration has an average pore size of 0.1 microns—or millionths of a meter.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 9 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024