The length of diameter of silk fiber is ...
The length of 1 diameter of silk fiber is 15 micrometers. That is ...
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almost the same as diameter of polyester fiber (1.07 to be exact).
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3 times bigger than diameter of bacteria (3.0 to be exact).
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21 times bigger than red light wavelength .
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43 times bigger than diameter of cigarette smoke particle .
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75 times bigger than diameter of the smallest bacterial .
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100 times bigger than diameter SARS virus .
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1,071 times bigger than diameter of the smallest virus .
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5,000 times bigger than distance between HDD disk and head .
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150,000 times bigger than X-ray wavelength .
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3,000,000 times bigger than shortest X-ray wavelength .
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15,000,000 times bigger than gamma ray wavelength .
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961,538,462 times bigger than diameter of uranium nucleus .
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8,823,529,412 times bigger than diameter of proton .
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4 times smaller than sperm (4.0 to be exact).
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29 times smaller than each side of the pixel of the LCD monitor .
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40 times smaller than diameter of ovum .
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84 times smaller than length of lice .
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812 times smaller than diameter of bullet .
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9,443 times smaller than diameter of DVD .
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73,406 times smaller than Japanese sword .
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131,564 times smaller than wing length of the Javan flying fox, the largest flying mammal in existence today .
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2,247,037 times smaller than full length of blue whale (the largest animal in history) .
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61,654,262 times smaller than Burj Khalifa (the highest building in the world) .
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191,536,840 times smaller than Yamanote Line between Tokyo-Shimbashi .
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1,181,465,531 times smaller than strait of Gibraltar .
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19,643,949,627 times smaller than distance from Tokyo to Ishikawa .
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846,538,241,908 times smaller than distance from New York to Cape Town .
