How to Use micron in a Sentence

micron

noun
  • At ten microns, these compounds are small enough to enter the lungs.
    — Diego Lasarte and Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 7 June 2023
  • And my blue diode is even wider at 80-100 microns.
    — New Atlas, 14 Nov. 2025
  • The field of view is 410 microns wide, about size of a sugar crystal.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 May 2023
  • 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
  • But terahertz waves stretch hundreds of microns long.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • This goes back to those wavelengths that are slightly longer or shorter than 15 microns.
    — Joseph Howlett, WIRED, 25 Aug. 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
  • Most infections start with water droplets, tiny globes of water 5 microns or less in size.
    — USA Today, 25 Mar. 2020
  • The outer layer was full of micron-sized holes that open at the same temperature.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2020
  • And because the device is so thin, just a few microns thick, it could be embedded anywhere.
    — Tracy Staedter, Fox News, 29 June 2017
  • 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
  • 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 smallest particle a human eye can see is about 40 microns.
    — Stephen Leahy, National Geographic, 15 Apr. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • An ocean of translucent balls, each roughly a fifth of a micron in diameter, loomed into view.
    — Jakob Vinther, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2017
  • Each electrode is smaller than 40 microns – thinner than a human hair.
    — New Atlas, 21 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Today's chip has 378 pixels, each 100-microns wide.
    — Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The implant measures about 300 microns long and 70 microns wide.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Strands of Pele's hair are extremely thin—typically around one micron across—but can grow up to a couple of feet in length.
    — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The digital skull, which took more than half a decade to complete, has a resolution of 21 microns.
    — Margherita Bassi, Interesting Engineering, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The water goes through a sand filter that takes out any particles up to two microns, like a receipt in their pocket or a tag that falls off, or a piece of lint.
    — Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The microscopic dust grains in the cloud come in various sizes, though all are generally on the order of a micron.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • This leads to enormous numbers of tiny grains of rock and/or ice, with most of them between about 10 microns and about 1 centimeter in size.
    — Big Think, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Quadruped water gun robots deploy high-pressure pulse systems to release micron-level water mist.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 19 Jan. 2026

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