Letter: For the record

Published 11 September 2024

A 100-nanometre glass bead is a thousandth of the width of a human hair (31 August, p 16).

Orkney is in Scotland, off the mainland (24 August, p 47).

Issue no. 3508 published 14 September 2024

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