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The first simulation produced ice that was not purely amorphous, but was up to 20% crystalline, with the ice crystals measuring just 3 nanometers across and embedding into the disordered gaps within the amorphous ices' structure.
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 9 July 2025
Once these clumps grow to about 50 nanometers (roughly the diameter of a virus) moisture condenses around them into cloud droplets.
—Max G. Levy, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025
According to the study, SNAP-X is packed with ultra-tiny silica capsules, each smaller than 70 nanometers (for comparison, the average human hair is 80,000-100,000 nanometers wide).
—Jenny Lehmann, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2025
Ars Video Non-stick surfaces The process of fabricating ultra-thin films (between one and a few tens of nanometers) made of various materials is called epitaxy and is used in manufacturing chips and two-dimensional semiconductors.
—ArsTechnica, 1 May 2025
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 9 July 2025
Once these clumps grow to about 50 nanometers (roughly the diameter of a virus) moisture condenses around them into cloud droplets.
—Max G. Levy, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025
According to the study, SNAP-X is packed with ultra-tiny silica capsules, each smaller than 70 nanometers (for comparison, the average human hair is 80,000-100,000 nanometers wide).
—Jenny Lehmann, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2025
Ars Video Non-stick surfaces The process of fabricating ultra-thin films (between one and a few tens of nanometers) made of various materials is called epitaxy and is used in manufacturing chips and two-dimensional semiconductors.
—ArsTechnica, 1 May 2025
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“Nanometer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nanometer. Accessed 17 Jul. 2025.
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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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