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How Tall Are You? Try measuring yourself in nanometers! Are you super tall—or is a nanometer super small? One meter is a billion nanometers. (A meter is a lile longer than a yard.) So if you’re a lile over three feet tall, you measure a billion nanometers! That sounds prey impressive, but it doesn’t mean that you’re super tall— it means that a nanometer is incredibly small. Here are some other ways to think about how ny a nanometer is: • The ridges in your fingerprints are around 250,000 nanometers wide. • A strand of your hair is around 75,000 nanometers wide. • Your DNA is 2 nanometers wide. • Your fingernails grow 1 nanometer every second. What’s measured in nanometers? A nanometer is a billionth of a meter. That’s really, really ny! Nanometers are used to measure things that are too small to see, like parts of a cell or DNA. It takes a lot of nanometers to measure something relavely big, like you. A child is about 1,000,000,000 nanometers tall. A red blood cell is about 10,000 nanometers wide. DNA is about 2 nanometers wide. This project was supported by the Naonal Science Foundaon under Grant No. 0940143. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendaons expressed in this program are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundaon. © 2013, Sciencenter, Ithaca, NY. whatisnano.org
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How Tall Are You?Try measuring yourself in nanometers!Are you super tall—or is a nanometer super small?
One meter is a billion nanometers. (A meter is a little longer than a yard.)
So if you’re a little over three feet tall, you measure a billion nanometers! That sounds pretty impressive, but it doesn’t mean that you’re super tall—it means that a nanometer is incredibly small.
Here are some other ways to think about how tiny a nanometer is:
• The ridges in your fingerprints are around 250,000 nanometers wide.
• A strand of your hair is around 75,000 nanometers wide.
• Your DNA is 2 nanometers wide.
• Your fingernails grow 1 nanometer every second.
What’s measured in nanometers? A nanometer is a billionth of a meter. That’s really, really tiny!
Nanometers are used to measure things that are too small to see, like parts of a cell or DNA. It takes a lot of nanometers to measure something relatively big, like you.
A child is about 1,000,000,000 nanometers tall.
A red blood cell is about 10,000 nanometers wide.
DNA is about 2 nanometers wide.
This project was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0940143. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation.
© 2013, Sciencenter, Ithaca, NY.
whatisnano.org
