1 nanometre
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To help compare different orders of magnitudes this page lists lengths between 10−9 metres and 10−8 metres (1 nanometres and 10 nanometres).
Distances shorter than 1 nanometre
- 1 nm = 1 nanometre = 1000 picometres = 10 angstroms
- 2 nm — diameter of DNA helix[1]
- 3.4 nm — length of a DNA turn (10 bp)[citation needed]
- 3 × 8 nm — size of an albumin protein molecule[citation needed]
- 6.8 nm — width of a haemoglobin molecule[citation needed]
- 7.5 nm - thickness of a cell membrane
Distances longer than 10 nanometres
[edit] See also
| Orders of magnitude for length in E notation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| shorter than one metre: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| <−24 | −24 | −23 | −22 | −21 | −20 | −19 | −18 | −17 | −16 | −15 | −14 | −13 | −12 | −11 | −10 | −9 | −8 | −7 | −6 | −5 | −4 | −3 | −2 | −1 | 0 |
| longer than 1 metre: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
[edit] Notes
- ^ Stewart, Robert. "Dr.". Radiobiology Software. http://rh.healthsciences.purdue.edu/vc/theory/dna/index.html. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
[edit] External links
- "A nano-scale overview". Nanotechnology/Overviews. Wikibooks. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Nanotechnology/Overviews#A_nano-scale_overview. Retrieved 2009-02-21.
