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If you were looking at something small, it is more meaningful to say this is 20 microns long, instead of 0.02mm. When you talk about decimal places, it is harder to grasp the figure as quickly as people often working with microns grasp the relevance of 20micron. Such samples include fiber size, transsectional areas taken for cell viewing through a light microscope (using a microtome, you get a nice cut), etc.

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