You'll need a micrometer to measure the change in length.
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Micrometer
/maɪˈkɹɑmɪtəɹ/
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A micrometer is one millionth of a meter.
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In a report, published in the magazine Nature, a group of scientists say that X-ray and spectroscopic analysis of a small diamond found in magma from a Brazilian volcano showed a 40 micrometer speck of a mineral called ringwoodite.
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