Input interpretation
zinc sulfide | particle size
Result
10 µm (micrometers)
Unit conversions
0.01 mm (millimeters)
1×10^-5 meters
3.937×10^-4 inches
0.3937 mils
Comparisons as length
≈ 0.87 × oil filter mesh size ( ≈ 450 µin )
≈ 1.2 × typical size of an Ostreococcus (the genus of the smallest, free-living, eukaryotic unicellular organism) ( ≈ 8.5×10^-6 m )
≈ 1.4 × length of an X chromosome ( ≈ 7 µm )
Corresponding quantities
Light travel time t in vacuum from t = x/c: | 33 fs (femtoseconds)
Light travel time t in an optical fiber t = 1.48x/c: | 49 fs (femtoseconds)