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Anton van Leeuwenhoek, a 17th 17^{\text {th }}-century pioneer in the use of the microscope, described the microorganisms he saw as "animalcules" whose length was " 25 thousandths of an inch." How long were the animalcules in meters?

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This can be solved through simple dimensional analysis. Recall that 11 inch is equal to 0.0254 m

125000 inch0.0254 m1 inch=1.016×106 m\dfrac{1}{25000}\ \text{inch} \cdot \dfrac{0.0254\text{ m}}{1\text{ inch}}=\boxed{1.016\times10^{-6} \text{ m}}

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