fingernail

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When used together, these ingredients produced a formula that allowed a smartphone to register a fingernail touch, marking an important early success.

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026

IBM says 2nm designs can fit up to 50 billion transistors, tiny components smaller than a virus, on a chip the size of a fingernail.

From Barron's • Dec. 31, 2025

Two days after the match, a small bruise appeared under my fingernail.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2025

Hewlett had detected metal buried inside some gravel—digging it up, he found a chunk of gold about half the size of his pinkie fingernail.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

Finally he grunted, gnawed on a fingernail, and eventually decided on what he wanted to say.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick