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- adjective physics Smaller than
micron -scale
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Examples
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Treiman later told me: “Would any reasonable person conclude that there was life on Mars based on the proportion of magnesium in submicron grains of magnetite?”
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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And it is essentially the inhalation of submicron particles of dust that adhere to the lungs and create an inability of the lungs to exchange oxygen.
Jeff Biggers: Black Lung Blockbuster: Democracy Now Interview with Upper Big Branch Investigator on New Report (VIDEO) Jeff Biggers 2011
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And it is essentially the inhalation of submicron particles of dust that adhere to the lungs and create an inability of the lungs to exchange oxygen.
Jeff Biggers: Black Lung Blockbuster: Democracy Now Interview with Upper Big Branch Investigator on New Report (VIDEO) Jeff Biggers 2011
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Treiman later told me: “Would any reasonable person conclude that there was life on Mars based on the proportion of magnesium in submicron grains of magnetite?”
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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“Every one of these submicron bits looks precision engineered.”
Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010
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“Every one of these submicron bits looks precision engineered.”
Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010
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I look at very small submicron-size particles, 1/1000 the size of a grain of sand, located in the more diffuse regions of space where stars aren't forming.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Jean Chiar, Studying the Origins of Everything 2010
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I look at very small submicron-size particles, 1/1000 the size of a grain of sand, located in the more diffuse regions of space where stars aren't forming.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Jean Chiar, Studying the Origins of Everything 2010
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“Every one of these submicron bits looks precision engineered.”
Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010
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In one case, we let it try to design a photonic structure, a structure that manipulates light at the submicron scale.
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