Re: The size of things
See what I mean by a slipping I.Q.? I never caught the mm, and probably would have quoted the mm, instead of um. Then everyone I know would've said, "See, I told you they were fringe nitwits," thus including all of you in my new non-proofing persona. Thanks again, Bob. Wil -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the subject: line. To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com List maintainer: Mike Devour
Re: The size of things
I noticed the same thing, but I wasn't going to say anything. I figured Susan was intending to say micrometers, or microns, so I mentally corrected it and read on. A good way to write micrometers would be to use "um". The "u" is the closest thing in the standard ascii character set for the greek lower case micron. So the ideal range of silver particle is something like .001-.0015um, or 1 to 15 nanometers. Oh well! Mike D. On 4 Jul 98 at 12:47, Bob Lee wrote: > Hi list, > Was scanning some postings and my eye caught on some numbers. My > brain likes numbers so my eyes are alert to them. A posting was > talking about blood and said that a red blood cell was 7 mm in > size. [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [mdev...@mail.id.net ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the subject: line. To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com List maintainer: Mike Devour
Re: The size of things
Tai-Pan wrote: > > Hi list, > Was scanning some postings and my eye caught on some numbers. My brain > likes numbers so my eyes are alert to them. > A posting was talking about blood and said that a red blood cell was > 7 mm in size. Since a red blood cell is really 0.0077 mm in size ,was > wondering what the differance was. To make the comparision decided to > use a childs play block to represent 1 X 10-3. That means that it would > I think most everyone knew that it was a typo or a misunderstanding. 7MM is just a little smaller that the standard 7.62 NATO bullet. Hardly compatable in the blood stream. bjs -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the subject: line. To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com List maintainer: Mike Devour
The size of things
Hi list, Was scanning some postings and my eye caught on some numbers. My brain likes numbers so my eyes are alert to them. A posting was talking about blood and said that a red blood cell was 7 mm in size. Since a red blood cell is really 0.0077 mm in size ,was wondering what the differance was. To make the comparision decided to use a childs play block to represent 1 X 10-3. That means that it would take 7700 (seven thousand and seven hundred) blocks to get up to 1 X 10 to 0 power. Now lets say that the childs block was 1.5 inch long and it takes 7700 of them to get up to the equivalent of 1 X 10/0. Thats 7700 X 7 since we want 7mm (7700 blocks was for 1mm) or 53,900 blocks at 1.5" each or 80,850 inches. That is 80,850 / 12 or 6737.5 feet long. Now a mile is 5280 feet so we have 6737 / 5280 or 1.2759 miles long. So speaking in terms of size a red blood cell 0.0017 mm in size ,represented by the block, was misrepresented as being over 1 and 1/4 miles in size. The size of a silver particle in the same posting was also misrepresented and would look like the Empire State building compared to its real proportion. :-) Bless you Bob Lee -- oozing on the muggy shore of the gulf coast l...@fbtc.net -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the subject: line. To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com List maintainer: Mike Devour
