Sentence examples for millimicron from inspiring English sources

The angstrom and multiples of it, the micron (104 Å) and the millimicron (10 Å), are also used to measure such quantities as molecular diameters and the thickness of films on liquids.

One form absorbs red light (660 millimicrons, or mμ; 1 mμ = 3.937 × 10−8 inch).

The ability to measure the rotation of the plane of polarized light transmitted through a solution containing a carbohydrate depends on finding a suitable solvent; water usually is used, with light at a wavelength of 589 mμ (millimicrons).

It can have various shapes (cubic, egg-shaped) and sixes varying from 450 millimicrons to 10 or 25 millimicr ns.