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This means that the glasses protect against all types of UV light with wavelengths under 400 nanometers, which includes UVA (which has a wavelength between 315 and 400) and UVB (which has a wavelength between 280 and 315).
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Staff Author, Parents, 13 Apr. 2024
In semiconductors, the nanometer measure refers to the distance between transistors on the chip, meaning there can be more transistors, and more densely designed, on a smaller nanometer chip.
—Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 19 Jan. 2024
Microplastics are a bit bigger, ranging from 1 nanometer to 5 millimeters, or about the size of a pencil eraser.
—Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 28 Mar. 2024
This generated a cloud of aluminum particles, each roughly 10 nanometers wide inside the gas.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Jan. 2024
These mRNA-lipid nanoparticles, or LNPs, are tiny spheres about 100 nanometers in diameter that protect mRNA from degradation and facilitate its delivery into target cells.
—Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
Scientists suspect that the hardest to see are the most damaging of the lot: plastic fragments 100 nanometers in size or less, less than 1/100th the width of human hair.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
In the new study, researchers created a silicon wafer that varied in height from 150 to 220 nanometers.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 Mar. 2024
Meanwhile, spin waves have wavelengths of around 100 nanometers and offer a different vision for analog computing more aligned to the predominantly electronic world of digital computers.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2024
Staff Author, Parents, 13 Apr. 2024
In semiconductors, the nanometer measure refers to the distance between transistors on the chip, meaning there can be more transistors, and more densely designed, on a smaller nanometer chip.
—Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 19 Jan. 2024
Microplastics are a bit bigger, ranging from 1 nanometer to 5 millimeters, or about the size of a pencil eraser.
—Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 28 Mar. 2024
This generated a cloud of aluminum particles, each roughly 10 nanometers wide inside the gas.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Jan. 2024
These mRNA-lipid nanoparticles, or LNPs, are tiny spheres about 100 nanometers in diameter that protect mRNA from degradation and facilitate its delivery into target cells.
—Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
Scientists suspect that the hardest to see are the most damaging of the lot: plastic fragments 100 nanometers in size or less, less than 1/100th the width of human hair.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
In the new study, researchers created a silicon wafer that varied in height from 150 to 220 nanometers.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 Mar. 2024
Meanwhile, spin waves have wavelengths of around 100 nanometers and offer a different vision for analog computing more aligned to the predominantly electronic world of digital computers.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 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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