angstrom

How To Use angstrom In A Sentence

• Neutral sodium absorbs orange light - at wavelengths of 5890 and 5896 angstroms - from stars that lie behind it.
• An angstrom is a unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter.
• In the absence of a polymer cushion, the aqueous film thickness was found to vary between a few angstroms and more than 4 nm.
• Angstrom slammed the door to his flat shut, cursing inwardly at his own stupidity.
• Since an angstrom is a tenth of a millionth of a metre, that's pretty small.
• So for many applications researchers turn to diffraction, which requires a crystal, but can achieve resolutions of a few angstroms or better.
• An angstrom, a unit of length measuring the wavelength of light, is about 500,000 times smaller than the thickness of a human hair.
• Lipid molecules in large membranes are believed to assemble and move collectively as aggregates (so called ‘rafts’), which can span several hundred angstroms of the bilayer surface.
• If one could stretch it out, a single DNA molecule can be more than a meter long (although only a few hundred angstroms wide)!
• TEAM 0.5 is capable of producing images with a resolution of one-half angstrom, which is less than the diameter of a single hydrogen atom. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories