This dramatically increases the reactivity relative to micrometre-sized powder thermite.
The treatment is built up by micrometre size particles in combination with traditional fluorine chemistry.
The second stage of processing involves filtration, typically using a filtration chain with the final filtration being triple sterile 0.1 micrometre membrane filters.
They do well with live foods, such as baby brine shrimp, and the micrometre larval diets.
Melt inclusions are generally small - most are less than 80 micrometres across (a micrometre is one thousandth of a millimeter, or about 0.00004 inches).
The two are often confused, but a micrometre is one thousandth of a millimetre or one thousand nanometres, so there is a huge difference in scale.
Furthermore, as this material is largely in micrometre-sized particles, the efficiency of spread of biological information is hugely enhanced over that of the same mass of boulders.
The zircon crystals are of micrometre scale.
