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For comparison, a strand of human hair would typically be around 90,000 nanometers in diameter—some 225 times thicker.—Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025 Most of the plastics the scientists found in brain, kidney and liver tissue were extremely small, less than 200 nanometers.—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025 Each molecule is only about 0.4 nanometers, or 16 billionths of an inch.—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 See All Example Sentences for nanometer
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