thin piece

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To demonstrate this precision, the researchers used a standard laser to create a microscopic monochrome portrait of Albert Einstein on a thin piece of the material, with points spaced just 700 nanometers apart.

From Science Daily • Apr. 21, 2026

And its implant resembles a very thin piece of tape that sits on the surface of the brain and can be implanted via a "cranial micro-slit", which it says is a much simpler procedure.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2023

She carefully carved a thin piece and aimed it in my direction.

From Salon • Aug. 13, 2023

Lace fronts, as they’re known, are those in which strands of human hair are applied to a thin piece of lace that imitates the skin on the forehead and scalp.

From New York Times • May 10, 2021

In these theories the basic objects are not particles, which occupy a single point of space, but things that have a length but no other dimension, like an infinitely thin piece of string.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking