microscopic
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It manufactures neodymium magnets by pouring liquid alloy onto a rotating, cooled disk, then rapidly quenching and pulverizing it to freeze the delicate crystalline structure at a microscopic scale before it can grow.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
To overcome this challenge, the Rochester team carefully designed microscopic grooves on the black metal surface.
From Science Daily • May 31, 2026
The discovery highlights how microscopic organisms can influence large-scale environmental processes.
From Science Daily • May 31, 2026
Using a custom-built noncontact sensing system called HackKey, the team recorded the movements of all 88 piano keys at a speed of 1,000 frames per second and with microscopic spatial precision.
From Science Daily • May 28, 2026
Mendel’s question was microscopic: How does a single organism transmit information to its offspring over a single generation?
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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