--- Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 02:13 PM 9/25/03 -0700, Deborah Harrell wrote: > > >A PubMed search is a little frustrating because many > >of the more recent articles don't have available > >abstracts; here are a few, however: > > > ><snip> > > > >http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12500801&dopt=Abstract > >Selected soil samples, collected in Kosovo > locations > >where DU ammunition was expended during the 1999 > >Balkan conflict, have been investigated <snip> > >The particle size distribution showed that most of > >the DU particles were <5 microm in diameter and more > than 50% of the particles had a diameter <1.5 microm. > > I know that the use of "micron" for 1�m = 10^-6 > meter is discouraged, and > of course the proper term "micrometer" can be > confusing because that word > is also the name of a tool used by machinists for > measuring lengths or > thicknesses of small items precisely (and the > approved abbreviation "�" for > 10^-6 is an extended ASCII character which is > neither found on most > typewriters or displayed properly by many e-mail > programs), but is "microm" > the new preferred term? The preferred term in > medical usage? Or just a typo?
Their typo. AFAIK. :P And how did you get the proper micron symbol? Debbi who is contemplating a rolled-up newspaper... ;) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
