Lexicographical Neighbors of Mikron
Literary usage of Mikron
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1920)
"of a mikron, the largest 0.5. The small forms predominate in the young cultures,
... The Berkefeld filters permit organisms up to 0.5 of a mikron to pass ..."
2. Baltimore Lectures on Molecular Dynamics and the Wave Theory of Light by William Thomson Kelvin (1904)
"... (the " mikron " being lO"6 of a metre or 10~4 of a centimetre), ... expression of
his own original theory, through a range of from -4 of a mikron to 23 ..."
3. The Art of Preserving Health.: Outlines of Practical Hygiene Adapted to by Charles Gilman Currier (1893)
"68. the round ones that cause erysipelas (see Fig 67) and also several of the
kinds that cause suppuration (see Fig. 68), are less than one mikron in size. ..."
4. Proceedings by Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of Ohio (1895)
"They are from 2.5 mikron to 3 mikron in length, and 0.7 mikron broad, looking
very much like the kind of sponge cake, ..."
5. The Journal of Medical Research by American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists (1902)
"... thickness three-quarters to one mikron. Contrary to the general rule for the
short, solid types, it proved highly virulent, killing guinea- pigs in ..."
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