[geeks] jackassery from the BBC

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Thu Jan 8 10:11:23 CST 2009


Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Second correection:
> 
>> "The optimum scanning electron microscope imaging conditions are
>> attained with an incident-electron energy set at 5 to 6kV, which
>> produced images with resolution on the order of 1N<m.
> 
> This apparently did not encode correctly.  As copied and pasted, that
> resolution was 1 micrometer, stated as 1[greek letter mu]m.

And shouldn't the first number (the energy reading) be in keV?

Peace...  Sridhar



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