Those products, along with small scales, tiny spoons and powder used in diluting cocaine, are prohibited by a little-enforced 1986 federal law.

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At tiny scales, the position of an object is hard to pin down.

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Dr Craighead created his tiny scales from crystals of silicon.

ECONOMIST: Small-scale physics

He transformed the tiny maker of bathroom scales into a global producer of sophisticated sensors that, among other things, help guide the Trident missile.

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We let that one go, but only after he had held it in his hands, cold and quick, muscle with eyes and a heart, scales specked with yellow and red, and one tiny orange fin.

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