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Mode3 t1_jccgosv wrote

Reply to comment by batatatchugen in Researchers shrink camera to the size of a salt grain by speckz

What is granule size of salt?

1-6 mm

Do you think 6 mm is large? Get out of here!

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batatatchugen t1_jcchk3v wrote

It's not about being huge or not, it's about relative size.

Table salt had tiny, sub millimeter grains, while rock said has huge, in comparison, grains.

When you're taking about possibly hundreds of times more volume, that does make a huge difference.

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Mode3 t1_jcchq3z wrote

You are being dense if you don’t think “a grain of salt” is used to describe something very small.

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batatatchugen t1_jccix3s wrote

You are the sense one here.

First, your failed to see that it was clearly a joke, for fucks sake, I'm taking about kosher salt in that first reply to the post, but that doesn't change the fact that salt, regular salt that everyone has access to, comes in very different "sizes", and when taking about electronics miniaturization, one order of magnitude of a difference in size is a veeery significant difference, and when comparing a grain of table salt and a large grain of rock salt, we're taking about more than just one order of magnitude.

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