Micron vs Submicron - What's the difference?
micron | submicron |
(physics) A unit of length; the thousandth part of one millimeter; the millionth part of a meter.
* 2009 , Jonathan Amos, (bbc.co.uk)
In physics terms the difference between micron and submicron
is that micron is a unit of length; the thousandth part of one millimeter; the millionth part of a meter while submicron is smaller than micron-scale.As a noun micron
is a unit of length; the thousandth part of one millimeter; the millionth part of a meter.As an adjective submicron is
smaller than micron-scale.micron
English
Noun
(en noun)Satellites weigh California water
- As one spacecraft lurches and drags through the Earth's uneven gravity field, the second follows 210 km behind, measuring changes in their separation to the nearest micron (a thousandth of a millimetre).