I have been reading a little about the size of cells and wascurious as to how small they really were.
I have noticed that on my finger, the outlines of thefingerprint are made up of thin lines. In fact, some of them are sothin that I have difficulty imagining anything thinner I can makeout with the naked eye.
I have read that the naked eye has a resolution of 0.1millimeters = 100 micrometers, whereas eukaryotic cells range indiameter of 10 - 100 micrometers.
Putting this information together, would it be reasonable toconclude that the lines on my fingers have a width ranging from 1 -10 skin cells? Is there any satisfactory method to verify thiswithout fancy equipment? Is it even true?
P.S.
Are there also more scientific names for these "finger lines" sothat I can look it up somewhere? Googling "finger lines" brings upa lot of stuff about palm reading.
I have been reading a little about the size of cells and wascurious as to how small they really were.
I have noticed that on my finger, the outlines of thefingerprint are made up of thin lines. In fact, some of them are sothin that I have difficulty imagining anything thinner I can makeout with the naked eye.
I have read that the naked eye has a resolution of 0.1millimeters = 100 micrometers, whereas eukaryotic cells range indiameter of 10 - 100 micrometers.
Putting this information together, would it be reasonable toconclude that the lines on my fingers have a width ranging from 1 -10 skin cells? Is there any satisfactory method to verify thiswithout fancy equipment? Is it even true?
P.S.
Are there also more scientific names for these "finger lines" sothat I can look it up somewhere? Googling "finger lines" brings upa lot of stuff about palm reading.
