10 micrometres

To help compare different orders of magnitude, this page lists lengths between 10⁻⁵ m and 10⁻⁴ m (10 µm and 100 µm).

10 µm — width of cotton fibre^[1]
10 µm — transistor width of the Intel 4004, the world's first commercial microprocessor
5-20 µm — dust mite excreta^[2]
10.6 µm — wavelength of light emitted by a carbon dioxide laser
13 µm - width of nylon fibre^{[citation needed]}
14 µm - width of polyester fibre^{[citation needed]}
15 µm — width of silk fibre
16 µm — diameter of a micromirror in a typical Digital micromirror device
17 µm — length of a tobacco mosaic virus
17.6 µm — one twip, a unit of length in typography
10 to 55 µm — width of wool fibre^[1]
25.4 µm — 1/1000^th inch, commonly referred to as 1 mil in the U.S. and 1 thou in the UK
30-50 µm — diameter of a minicolumn in the human cortex
50 µm — typical length of Euglena gracilis, a flagellate protist
50 µm — typical length of a human liver cell, an average-sized body cell
80 µm — average width of human hair (ranges from 18 to 180 µm)
91 µm — the size of the Earth if the Sun is scaled to the size of a marble (1cm).

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Orders of magnitude for length in E notation, shorter than one metre:
<-24	-24	-23	-22	-21	-20	-19	-18	-17	-16	-15	-14	-13	-12	-11	-10	-9	-8	-7	-6	-5	-4	-3	-2	-1	0
longer than 1 metre:
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26