While packaged as a wafer, automatic test equipment (ATE) can connect to the individual units using a set of microscopic needles.

This fine powder acts like microscopic needles on the skin of the slugs and disrupts their breathing system and dehydrates them.

The I.B.M. scientists said they could only speculate on the nature of the force the microscopic needle exerts on the xenon atoms, which are electrically neutral.

It'd be like finding a microscopic needle in a haystack the size of Rhode Island.

Once scientists have isolated a gene they want to transplant, they inject it into fish eggs using a microscopic needle.

Inserting some sort of microscopic needle?

This acridity is caused in part by microscopic needle like raphides of calcium oxalate monohydrate and in part by another chemical, probably a protease.

Ground-hugging bristly plants, with black stalks that split and split again to become orange thorns whose tips divided down to tiny, tinier, microscopic green needles.

C. textile is a carnivorous species, and uses a radula (a biological microscopic needle) to inject a conotoxin to kill its prey.

It has also been found at Lavrion, Greece and Plaka, Greece as microscopic white needles.