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    A micrometer, sometimes known as a micrometer screw gauge, is a device incorporating a calibrated screw widely used for accurate measurement of components...
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  • Micrometer can mean: Micrometer (device), used for accurate measurements by means of a calibrated screw Micrometre, a millionth of a metre This disambiguation...
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    An ocular micrometer or eyepiece micrometer is a glass disk, engraved with a ruled scale, that fits in an eyepiece of a microscope, which is used to measure...
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    A filar micrometer is a specialized eyepiece used in astronomical telescopes for astrometry measurements, in microscopes for specimen measurements, and...
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    Micrometre (redirect from Micrometers)
    by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; SI symbol: μm) or micrometer (American English), also commonly known by the non-SI term micron, is...
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    term "caliper" is often used in contradistinction to micrometer, even though outside micrometers are technically a form of caliper. In this usage, caliper...
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    The beauty micrometer, also known as the beauty calibrator, was a device designed in the early 1930s to help in the identification of the areas of a person's...
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    canals. Watt called his instrument a micrometer, a term now used with a different meaning in engineering (the micrometer screw gauge). It consisted of two...
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  • Torr (redirect from Micrometer of mercury)
    The torr (symbol: Torr) is a unit of pressure based on an absolute scale, defined as exactly ⁠1/760⁠ of a standard atmosphere (101325 Pa). Thus one torr...
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  • being withdrawn. The gauge is then removed and measured with the aid of a micrometer anvil heads, move the head of the gauge around while making the measurement...
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    where a simple linear mechanism is adequate. Examples are calipers and micrometers to measure to fine tolerances, on sextants for navigation, on theodolites...
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    The spark micrometer, also known as a Riess micrometer was a device used by 19th century physicists to measure potential in an electric circuit. It was...
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    radius. Angular diameter – How large a sphere or circle appears Caliper, micrometer, tools for measuring diameters Conjugate diameters – Perpendicular diameters...
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    particles may be visible to the naked eye, usually must be larger than one micrometer, and will eventually settle, although the mixture is only classified as...
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    On a manual milling machine, the micrometer adjustment nut limits the depth to which the cutting tool may plunge into the workpiece. The nut is located...
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    two objects (such as in focusing a microscope, moving the anvils of a micrometer, or positioning optics). A differential screw uses a spindle with two...
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    other attached to the micrometer screw and slid along the cut diameter. To measure the diameter of the Sun, for example, the micrometer is first adjusted...
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  • particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5, i.e. particles smaller than 10 or 2.5 micrometers, respectively). Healthy city Zero-carbon city WHO Global Ambient Air...
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    concentration in New York City's air of particulate matter measuring 2.5 micrometers or less (PM2.5) was 7.0 micrograms per cubic meter, or 3.0 micrograms...
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    material wavelength (micrometer) CO2 laser: 10.6 wavelength (micrometer) Nd:YAG laser: 1.06 ceramics well poorly plywood very well fairly well polycarbonate...
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    more commonly, the "millimicron" for short – since it is ⁠1/1000⁠ of a micrometer. It was often denoted by the symbol mμ or, more rarely, as μμ (however...
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    the cell packed with microvilli that make up the absorbing surface. Each microvillus is approximately 1 micrometers long and 0.1 micrometer in diameter...
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  • dimensions of bores that are either too small in diameter for an inside micrometer, and have greater economy than a bore gage or other precision internal...
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  • to measure the contours of subjects' faces. He called it the "Beauty Micrometer". Its purpose was to detect even barely-visible structural flaws, that...
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  • "Mr. Towneley's hypothesis". He also introduced John Flamsteed to the micrometer and invented the deadbeat escapement, which became the standard escapement...
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  • million atoms and a diameter of roughly 10 nm. Its length is up to a few micrometers. It is similar in size to a tobacco mosaic virus with comparable length...
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    a pin. In optics, pinholes with diameter between a few micrometers and a hundred micrometers are used as apertures in optical systems. Pinholes are commonly...
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    Numata. At the time of launch, Mitutoyo only had a single product, the micrometer. The 1930s in Japan was a period of industrialization and Numata was part...
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    The following are examples of orders of magnitude for different lengths. To help compare different orders of magnitude, the following list describes various...
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    division. Most cells are very small, with diameters ranging from 1 to 100 micrometers and are therefore only visible under a light or electron microscope....
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