This practice persists in the face of official discouragement, perhaps to help disambiguate between the unit of measurement and the micrometer, a measuring device.
Micrometre is not Exametre, Petameter, or Zettametre (whose links are "self reflective" ones from technical "orders of magnitude" articles, and have been thus quite appropriatly made into redirects to Metre).
Anyone who would type in "micrometre" could just as easily (more easily!) search for "metre" and get there, and anyone who had no idea whatsoever what they were clicking on would be able to understand the very clear sentence at the top of 1 E-6 m and follow that link to metre.
I do agree that micrometre should have it's own article, but I think in the meantime it's rather silly to redirect to the base unit when there is an article (albeit brief) on this exact topic in the form of 1 E-6 m.
Some people (especially in astronomy and the semiconductor business) use the old name micron and/or the solitary symbol µ for the same thing, even though it is officially discouraged.
Boston, in my time pervaded society; but New York has distinctly nothing of the kind, in any marketed here; but our good society cares no more for it than for some books as for horses or for stocks, and I suppose it is not unlike.
Dusty Plasma(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
A dusty plasma contains suspended particles of matter typically of the nanometre to micrometre size (one billionth to one millionth of a metre in size).
Small plastic particles, with diameters of around 5 micrometres, are injected into the plasma.
They acquire charge and form a plasma crystal in the plasma sheath adjacent to the powered electrode where the force due to the sheath electric field balances the gravitation force.
Ascomata yellowish, spherical, 80-130 micrometre diam, surrounded by masses of Hulle cells.
Ascospores spinulose, hyaline to yellowish, lenticular, 4-5.6 x 3.2-4.8 micrometre, with inconspicuous longitudinal grooves and two very low longitudinal crests.
Millimetres To Micrometres(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The entire march of processor technology I showed in the timing slide is essentially the story of learning to shrink our circuits from the order of tens of micrometres to single micrometres, and the frontier of electronics in the next several years will be shrinking further, down to fractions of a micrometre.
All the way down to micrometres, we've been able to design circuits essentially the way we did in the days of vacuum tubes.
Somewhere between half a micrometre and a tenth of a micrometre, these comfortable assumptions begin to break down.
I wish to understand from a chemical point of view, what is the process of zinc migration.
I have consulted ASTM B545-92 which recommends Min 2.5 micrometre Copper or 1.3 micrometre Nickel underplate on metals which contain > 5% zinc to prevent zinc migration.
I have received varying recommendations of what underplate of Copper is required to prevent zinc migration.
The modulator is based on a resonant light-confining structure that enhances the sensitivity of light to small changes in refractive index of the silicon and also enables high-speed operation.
The modulator is 12 micrometres in diameter, three orders of magnitude smaller than previously demonstrated.
Electro-optic modulators are one of the most critical components in optoelectronic integration, and decreasing their size may enable novel chip architectures.
(iii) Introducing the micrometre world seen with the light microscope, emphasising the existence of cells.
Preparing samples for a "closer look" with the microscope - squashing, slicing and digesting of tissues is used to see the cells within.
Through the looking glass - Plant cells under the microscope, demonstrate the micrometre (mm) range of scale, and the "bubble-like" packet of life called the cell.
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