Message no. 1

From:	Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject:	Dikote thickness (was Re: The Chromium Mage)
Date:	Tue, 12 Aug 1997 13:08:13 +0100

John E Pederson said on 20:29/11 Aug 97...

> A layer of Dikote glaze is probably only microns (_very_ small fractions
> of a meter, I believe) thick, probably thinner than paper.

A "micron" is a micrometer, or one-millionth of a meter, or 1/1000th of a
millimeter, and is abbreviated with the Greek letter mu (extended ASCII,
so I won't use it here). Paper is _much_ thicker than a micrometer -- when
pressed together, my SRII rulebook (minus the covers) is about 16 mm thick
for 300 pages, translating to 0.053 mm per page: 53 micrometers per page.

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