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The ångström or angstrom is a non- SI unit of length equal to (one ten-billionth of a metre ) or 0.1 nanometre . Its symbol is Å , a letter in the Swedish alphabet . The natural sciences and technology often use ångström to express sizes of atoms, molecules, ...
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unit of length equal to one hundred millionth of a centimeter (used to measure wavelengths of light), 1892, named for Swedish physicist Anders à ngström (1814-1874).
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n. a metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation [syn: angstrom unit , A ]
Usage examples of angstrom.
She was beautiful and blind in a wonderful way, for she could see in the infrared only, from 7,500 angstroms to one millimeter wavelengths.
She was strangely and wonderfully blind, for she could see in the infrared only, from 7,500 angstroms to one millimeter wave lengths, far below the normal visible spectrum.
A computer on the American side of the bulkhead positioned the pellet to within an angstrom and fired it through a long pipe into the chamber of the Chinese device.
VIII Evening came again to the City, the lower angstrom output lowering the tensions generated during that day.
This, when you demagnify it by 25,000 times, is still 80 angstroms in diameter---32 atoms across, in an ordinary metal.
An Angstrom unit (abbreviated A) is a very small unit of length, equal to 1/100,000,000 of a centimeter, or 1/250,000,000 of an inch.
The wavelength of light is usually measured in Angstrom units, named for a igth-century Swedish astronomer, Anders J.
It started almost violet, somewhere around 4,000 angstrom units, and traced a continuous wave shift until it flickered out at the red end.
The path is thus conical, not cylindrical, although the flare can be measured in angstrom units per meter.
They loosed a flight of arrows that plucked at his clothing, kicked sand up in his face, whistled mere angstrom units over his head.
Ultraviolet light, which causes both erythema (sunburn) and tanning, ranges in wavelength from 4,000 angstrom units (A) down to about 100A.
His personality color-code, in Angstrom units, was 5290, or only a few degrees bluer than Dora's 5314, a measure of what they had intuitively discovered at first sight, that they possessed many affinities of taste and interest.
Your eyes perceive light with wavelengths between about 4000 and 7200 angstrom units.
Consider, for example, a piece of material in which we make little coils and condensers (or their solid state analogs) 1,000 or 10,000 angstroms in a circuit, one right next to the other, over a large area, with little antennas sticking out at the other end---a whole series of circuits.
Each capsule deploys a gigajoule charge and generates multiple, independently targetable beams at a ten-thousandth of an Angstrom.