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Discover LudwigThe phrase "as thin as five" is not a standard expression in English and may not be widely understood.
It could be used in a context where you are comparing something's thinness to an unconventional measurement, but clarity may be lacking.
Example: "The paper was so flimsy, it felt as thin as five, barely holding together."
Alternatives: "as thin as a whisper" or "as thin as a thread."
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The new method involves filaments as thin as five nanometers in width — thinner than what the industry hopes to achieve by the end of the decade using standard techniques.
It is shown that the method holds for transitions with characteristic thicknesses (D) as thin as five Debye lengths.
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But E Ink executives have said that the product could eventually be as thin as four sheets of paper.
"The gel on each strip is as thin as two or three pieces of paper," said Dr. Robert W. Gerlach, a principal scientist at Procter & Gamble.
He's obviously got some brilliant business minds around him, but even Jamie must worry he's spreading himself as thin as one of his Union Jacks flatbread pizzas.
The result is a dry electrolyte that is about the thickness of cellophane but could ultimately be made as thin as one micron, a thousandth of a millimeter.
And in the coming year, digital tattoos as thin as two micrometers might become available making it the ultimate sensor.
If Louis Smith is to win a gold medal on the pommel horse - which is a possibility, and he must decide whether he goes for broke or plays it safe - then the margin will be as thin as the one in 1988.
Films could be produced as thin as 1 μm, ten times thinner than any other previous membranes in the M-MOF-74 series, in a fraction of the time (only 2.5 h).
Scientists at Lucent Technologies Bell Labss have created transistors made of organic molecules that are incredibly small in fact, so tiny that the electricity-conducting part of the transistor is as thin as a molecule, a million times smaller than a grain of sand.
You could have heard the drop of a pin, even one as thin as "Two-Metre Peter".
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