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An atom of silicon is 0.21 nanometers wide, for example.
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Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2024
Martin Bachmann, an immunologist at the University of Bern, has argued that VLPs for SAR-CoV-2 could space spike molecules more closely—about 5 nanometers apart—than the virus itself.
—Byjon Cohen, science.org, 11 Oct. 2024
Because a nanometer is 10 to the power of -9, or one billionth, of a meter.
—John Werner, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
Kazansky’s team used ultra-fast lasers to inscribe the human genome data into voids as small as 20 nanometers (a nanometer is about one-billionth of a meter).
—Rosa Rahimi, CNN, 20 Sep. 2024
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Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2024
Martin Bachmann, an immunologist at the University of Bern, has argued that VLPs for SAR-CoV-2 could space spike molecules more closely—about 5 nanometers apart—than the virus itself.
—Byjon Cohen, science.org, 11 Oct. 2024
Because a nanometer is 10 to the power of -9, or one billionth, of a meter.
—John Werner, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
Kazansky’s team used ultra-fast lasers to inscribe the human genome data into voids as small as 20 nanometers (a nanometer is about one-billionth of a meter).
—Rosa Rahimi, CNN, 20 Sep. 2024
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“Nanometer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nanometer. Accessed 19 Nov. 2024.
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nanometer
noun
nano·me·ter
variants
or chiefly British nanometre
: one billionth of a meter
—abbreviation nm
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