--- 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...  ;)

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