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Each molecule is only about 0.4 nanometers, or 16 billionths of an inch.
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Daniel Freedman, The Conversation, 20 Jan. 2025
Some devices emit blue light, usually between 400 to 490 nanometers.
—Melinda Wenner Moyer, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
The Dutch company uses a complex process that starts with kilowatt-class lasers to blasting molten droplets of tin into a plasma that glows with a 13.5 nanometer wavelength .
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Jan. 2025
To accomplish this, experts first create extremely tiny holes only a few nanometers wide in the bacteria’s cell membrane.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 18 Dec. 2024
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Daniel Freedman, The Conversation, 20 Jan. 2025
Some devices emit blue light, usually between 400 to 490 nanometers.
—Melinda Wenner Moyer, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
The Dutch company uses a complex process that starts with kilowatt-class lasers to blasting molten droplets of tin into a plasma that glows with a 13.5 nanometer wavelength .
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Jan. 2025
To accomplish this, experts first create extremely tiny holes only a few nanometers wide in the bacteria’s cell membrane.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 18 Dec. 2024
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“Nanometer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nanometer. Accessed 6 Feb. 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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