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In the present study, heating the scented wax contributed significantly to the number of new particles formed in the indoor air, particularly those smaller than 100 nanometers (nm).
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New Atlas, 16 Feb. 2025
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
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New Atlas, 16 Feb. 2025
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
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“Nanometer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nanometer. Accessed 9 Mar. 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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