What is "billionths"

Usage examples of "billionths".

It is the quest to build man-made machinery of extremely small size, on the order of 100 nanometers, or a hundred billionths of a meter.

A billion-ton kernel had an event horizon only a few billionths of a nanometer across.

In 1911 Rutherford proposed this new structure for the atom, and pointed out that while the atom itself was small—a few billionths of an inch—the nucleus was tiny, only about a hundred thousandth as big in radius as the whole atom.

With the use of this method, temperatures as low as a few billionths of a degree have been attained.

Several tunes, facsimiles of space, that were almost like what had been destroyed, held against the chaos for a measurable time in terms of billionths of seconds.

The intention of the collider was to let scientists probe “the ultimate nature of matter,” as it is always put, by re-creating as nearly as possible the conditions in the universe during its first ten thousand billionths of a second.

In the billionths of a second before the rods and the ellipsoid-walled focusing cavity surrounding them were vaporized, the energy from the bomb would be concentrated into intense beams of X rays aligned along the rod axes, which could be aimed with precision.

In the billionths of a second before the rods and the ellipsoid-walled focusing cavity surrounding them were vaporized, the ­energy from the bomb would be concentrated into intense beams of X rays aligned along the rod axes, which could be aimed with precision.