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The length measurements are extremely useful and used to make distances between two points in particular. For this, we could use non-conventional measurement units such as straws, asparagus or some part of our body, such as my hand or your foot. Although they will be very uneven measures and coincide only by chance.
To standardize the units of measurement universally, several systems of conventional units are used, such as the English or Anglo-Saxon system and the international measurement system or metric system.
Inch
The inch or “in” by the abbreviation of the English term inch, is the unit of length most commonly used in Anglo-Saxon countries, that is, the unit of length in the English measurement system.
Other measures of length common in the English-speaking countries are: the foot (ft = 12 inches), the yard (yd = 3ft = 36 in), the mile (mi = 63.360 in) and the league (le = 3 mi = 190,080 in)
The metric system and the international system of units adopt the meter as a measure of length. One meteris equivalent to 39.37 inches. The meter has multiples and submultiples under the metric system, so we have
As submultiples of the subway :
- Meter (m)
- Decimeter (dm) = 0.1 meter
- Centimeter (cm) = 0.01 meter
- Millimeter (mm) = 0.001 meter
- Micrometer ( * μ * m) = 1e-6 meter
- Nanometer (nm) = 1e-9 meter
- Picometer (pm) = 1e-12 meter
- Fentometer (fm) = 1e-15 meter
- Attometer (am) = 1e-18 meter
- Zeptometer (zm) = 1e-21 meter
- Yoctometer (ym) = 1e-24 meter
What is a micron?
As we can see the micron, micro, micron or micrometre is a submultiple of the meter. A unit of measurement of the decimal metric system equivalent to one-thousandth of a millimetre and one-millionth of a meter.
Incredibly the micron was abolished by the General Conference of Weights and Measures in 1967 but its use in industry, science and daily life did not stop. The micron is a very conventional measure to measure “microscopic objects.”
According to Sizes.com, the micron or micron is a submultiple of the meter that is most used in certain fields, such as microbiology. The semiconductor industry and fiber cables.
The micron is also used to describe the sizes of particles suspended in the air and retained by air filters, water, including our lungs. In this particular, our lungs protect us from particles with a minimum size of 0.2 microns, smaller impurities pass into the bloodstream and are considered the high risk to human health.
The range of wavelength of light to which an optical instrument responds, the precision machining, the fineness of the wool and other textile basic products and even the thickness of our hair is measured in microns, it is located between 70 – 80 microns in diameter.
How to convert inches to microns?
In situations of everyday life, it is common that we have to convert inches to microns or vice versa, which may not be so simple or direct because an inch and a micron are not only units of different measurement systems, but are very different sizes of measurement.
We can say that the inch and micron are in “dissimilar frequencies or channels.” An inch is a unit of length measurement in the American system and the micron in the international system.
The ideal bridge between the two measures may well be the centimetre since it is much more common for users of one or the other system to convert inches into meters or vice versa. We all know that one inch equals 2.54 centimetres.
Since both the inch and the micron are both measures of length, you can convert an inch to microns through conversion factors and online tools like calculateme.com or metric-conversions.org
If we know that one centimetre is equal to 2.54 inches and that the same centimetre contains 10,000 microns, we can say that
1 in x (2.54 cm/in) x (10,000 μ/cm) = 25,400 microns per inch.
Multiply the amount in inches by 25,400 to take to microns. For example, 25 inches multiplied by 25,400 is equal to 635,000 μm.
If you are going to carry microns to inches multiply the amount in microns by (1 / 25,400) that is, multiply the amount in inches by 0.0000393700787 or 3.937×10-5 to bring to microns. For example, 127,000 μm. Multiplied by 0.0000393700787 equals 5 inches
Perhaps it is easier to take the amount in microns and divide by 25,400 microns per inch. Then 127,000 μm / 25,400 μm/in = 5 in.