It's measured in microns, does not effect accuracy, pressure or velocity.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's the best product for cleaning gun barrels? and for Del, what's this UltraCoat stuff you speak of?] Reference

While microscopic, the particles are large enough to be measured in microns, or millionths of a meter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: October 13, 2002 - October 19, 2002 Archives] Reference

Most are more like 50 microns, which is less than the screen in question.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

The laser will use infrared light with a wavelength of 1.06 microns, which is thousands of times shorter than radio waves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: September 12, 2004 - September 18, 2004 Archives] Reference

In the picture, blue and cyan represent infrared light with wavelengths of 3.4 and 4.6 microns, which is mostly light from stars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

Green and red represent wavelengths of 12 and 22 microns, which is mostly light from warm dust; red signals temperatures lower than green.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

The average particle size is 3.3 microns which is smaller than a red blood cell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wil's Ebay E-Store]

Green and red represent light at 12 and 22 microns, which is mostly light from warm dust. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Register] Reference

Infrared waves vary from 5 to 14 microns which is much, much longer than solar radiation but much, much shorter than radiant heat waves.    From Wordnik.com.  [WORLDMag.com] Reference

The smallest of the four filters is 0.0135 microns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maria Rodale: A Visit to My Kitchen: Max Goldberg] Reference

Consider the fact a human hair is about 100 microns.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2001] Reference

Thickness: 200-230 microns; weight 190 g/m2; density.    From Wordnik.com.  [18. Supplies and Transport] Reference

The filter traps everything bigger than 0.0135 microns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maria Rodale: A Visit to My Kitchen: Max Goldberg] Reference

It's tedious work, speaking to invisible microns of air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Questions And Answers: Steve Burns] Reference

A sheet thickness of 200 microns meets both requirements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

We are talking one to five microns, similar to the anthrax.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 15, 2003] Reference

The filters will remove any particles larger than 10 microns in size.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

I mean, you think about the fact that a human hair is about 100 microns.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2001] Reference

(To give some perspective, the tip of a strand of hair is about 100 microns.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Maria Rodale: A Visit to My Kitchen: Max Goldberg] Reference

QUESTION: So what is the size of the microns of the samples that you all have?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2001] Reference

The thickness of the galvanizing material (zinc) varies in the range of 60 microns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 4] Reference

How big it is, how many microns it is, does it stick together, are there additives?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 4, 2004] Reference

The starch granules are of medium size, from 4 to 18 microns, and rounded or angular.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 29] Reference

I mean, the size of a spore that can infect a person probably averages about 5 microns.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2001] Reference

The size of the pores in the paper is about 100 microns in some of the standard papers.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 25, 2001] Reference

And the talcum powder granules that are in there, Bill, are about 30-40 microns in size.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 25, 2001] Reference

Anthrax spores measure one to five microns across in their most deadly, aerosolized form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Skyscrapers] Reference

The carbohydrate con sists mainly of starch of granule size ranging from 10 to 65 microns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 37] Reference

If you look at China as a whole, the average is about 400 microns per cubic meter of air now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harding Lieberthal Press Briefing On China] Reference

For particulate matter, what we are talking about are little tiny things, 2.5 microns in size.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By Administration Officials On The Environment] Reference

The grains are usually spherical or ovoid, ranging from 5 to 27 microns, averaging 14 microns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 8] Reference

Pollen is roughly five to two hundred microns or considerably smaller than the width of human air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Killing Hour]

If it is smaller than one micron or larger than 10 microns, it is not able to be inhaled properly.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 17, 2001] Reference

Compare that to the anthrax spores we've been hearing so much about, about 1 to 5 microns in size.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 25, 2001] Reference

The ground material is slurried with water and passed through a fine wire sieve (aperture 300 to 800 microns).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

The starch contains a high proportion of fairly large granules: sizes ranging from 5 to 50 microns have been reported.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 37] Reference

These coatings, verying in thickness by only microns, are responcible for the way light refracts off of the pigment particles.    From Wordnik.com.  [madrigle Diary Entry] Reference

The starch consists mainly of fairly large granules (5-60 microns) and the gelatinisation temperature is from 65. 5° to 75. 5°C.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 37] Reference

The starch granules are rounded or polyhedral, very small (1-15 microns in diameter), with a rather low amylose content (14-15 per cent).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 37] Reference