1 E-5 m

To help compare different orders of magnitude, this page lists lengths between 10^-5 m and 10^-4 m (10 µm and 100 µm).

10 µm — width of cotton fibre
10.6 µm — wavelength of light emitted by a carbon dioxide laser
12 µm — width of Acrylic fibre
13 µm — width of nylon fibre
14 µm — width of polyester fibre
15 µm — width of silk fibre
17 µm — dust mite excreta [¹]
20 µm — width of wool fibre
25.4 µm — 1/1000^th inch, commonly referred to as 1 mil in the US and 1 thou in the UK
30-50 µm — diameter of a minicolumn in the human cortex
50 µm — typical length of Euglena gracilis, a flagellate protist
80 µm — average width of human hair (ranges from 18 to 180 µm)

Distances longer than 100 µm

References

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