But it was frightening to the marrow of your bones, and the fear sat with you, every moment of every day, an enemy that you cannot see, where a single microscopic trace of the virus can fall a healthy person in an excruciating death in a week.
You might ask, Why is microscopic trace examination necessary?
The newspaper had learned that investigators found microscopic traces of a chemical explosive.
The liquid that remains is buttermilk: naturally defatted milk, with microscopic traces of butter that leave a haunting, rich flavor and a creamy mouth feel.
Today, Melville's copy of Thomas Beale's "Natural History of the Sperm Whale," which he read while composing "Moby-Dick," is laid out like the Shroud of Turin in the conservation laboratory of the Fogg Art Museum under an infrared camera capable of discerning microscopic traces of graphite left behind by the wielder of the eraser -- who, some think, may have been Melville himself.
Microscopic traces of ytterbium are used as a dopant in the Yb YAG laser, a solid-state laser in which ytterbium is the element that undergoes stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation.
The prosecution's case relied heavily on DNA evidence, specifically using a relatively new technique known as low copy number analysis, involving microscopic traces far smaller than those previously used in criminal forensics.
One of the other boys wakes up thirsty in the middle of the night, and Wyeth fetches him a glass of milk that turns out to be tainted with microscopic traces of peanut oil -- just enough to send the pillow-headed little fellow, who is allergic to nuts, into anaphylactic shock.
Correction: September 8, 2004, Wednesday An article on Aug. 30 about new security portals that can detect microscopic traces of explosives as people pass through included an erroneous price from General Electric, the manufacturer, for the model at the Statue of Liberty, known as EntryScan 3. It costs $132,000, not $40,000.
The only clue was microscopic traces of DNA, found on the centre console and the rear passenger seat of the BMW.
But research has found that breast cancer can begin to spread early, even when tumors are small, leaving microscopic traces of the disease after surgery.
