Nails grow at 3 mm per month.

指甲每个月会长3毫米。

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Can you take a stainless cane with 3 mm in diameter and drill a hole of 2 mm alongside the cane at the depth of 3 cm?

你能否用一根直径为3 mm的不锈钢棒，在旁边钻出一个直径为2 mm、深度为3 cm的孔？

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A study published this month in Environmental Microbiology describes a "giant" archaean that grows to 3 centimeters long and is nearly visible without magnification (it's just 0.1 mm thick).

这个月发表在《环境微生物学杂志》(Environmental Microbiology)上的一篇研究，描述了一个长到3厘米长的“巨型”古生菌，而且几乎不需要放大就能看见(厚度仅有0.1毫米)。

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That would make it fatter (as expected) than the 12.3-mm iPhone but skinnier (and a hair wider) than the 18.1-mm HTC Touch Pro and 17-mm Xperia X1.

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Also on display is a 15.4-inch LED-backlit LCD sporting a 1440 x 900 resolution, 5.8-mm thinness, and 3.1W power consumption making it suitable for all the new laptops.

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Kim then shifts into sales-mode by pointing out that Samsung's more power-efficient 240Hz LCDs and Plasmas with highly-reflective black panels and LED edge-lighting are quickly cutting into any advantage offered by OLEDs -- including thinness if you factor in the additional electronics you'd have to slap onto the back of those 3-mm thick OLED panels to create a TV.

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