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The conversion from micrometer to cm involves multiplying or dividing by 100. Since micrometers are far smaller than centimeters, when you convert from µm to cm, you need to divide by 100. When passing from centimeters to micrometers, the measure must increase. Hence we multiply by 100.

The micron equals a millionth of a meter. Let's reverse the equation to see how many microns we need to make a meter, but the answer is straightforward:

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You need a million micrometers to build a meter. We are not surprised to learn that the microns find valuable applications in science and technology: they lay halfway through the scale of our daily life and the scale of molecules, atoms, and quantum physics.

A human hair has an average diameter of 50 µm50\ \mathrm{µm}50 µm. What's the conversion from micron to mm? We need to divide this measure by 100010001000:

To convert between micron and any other metric unit, simply refer to this table. If you want, for example, to find the conversion from mm to micrometers, consider the difference between the exponents of these two units:

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Converting microns to imperial units is just slightly more challenging. The additional step involves switching between the two systems. You can do it in a specific position so as not to remember too many conversion factors. We prefer to perform the switch between meters and feet. The steps to convert a micron to an inch would then be:

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The conversion from mm to micrometer requires you to know how many microns are in a millimeter. There are 1,000 microns to a millimeter. To calculate the conversion of mm to microns, multiply by 1000 a measure in mm. To convert micrometers to mm (the opposite conversion), then you have to divide the measurement by 1,000.

For the conversion of mm to micrometers, we will consider the finest resolution of the human eye at a distance of about 15 cm15\ \mathrm{cm}15 cm: 0.026 mm0.026\ \mathrm{mm}0.026 mm. To find to how many micros this measure corresponds, we multiply by 100010001000:

Converting micrometers to any other metric unit is straightforward as long as you remember the exponent associated with each unit. In the following table, you can see the fraction of a meter corresponding to the most important metric units:

Knowing how to convert micrometers is a crucial skill in many fields of science, but it can also be helpful for other reasons, even just for curiosity. Keep reading to learn:

Micrometers, or microns, are a measurement unit of length. As you can see from their official name, they are a metric unit: knowing this, we can define its relationship with the meter.