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US
/ˈæŋstɹəm/
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[ UK /ˈæŋstɹɒm/ ]
[ UK /ˈæŋstɹɒm/ ]
NOUN
- a metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation
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.
- Coatings that were once measured in microns are now measured in angstroms.
- His masterwork is the set of four Rabbit Angstrom novels, a thousand pages in all, one novel every ten years from 1960 to 1990. Guest Post: Michael Peskin on John Updike
- Angstrom pulls his legs up close to his body, hugging them tightly.
- While I'm thinking about it, did you know that last year an electron microscope was developed with a ‘resolution’ of 1 angstrom?
- The strength of the interactions involving the N-terminal residues increases between 2 and 4 ns, with an average decrease in the interside-chain distance of about an angstrom in all cases.
- Photonic crystal technology can create color screen displays 1,000 angstroms thick ideal for cell phones or new generation palm pilots.
- If we assume that POPC has a cross-sectional area of 65 [Angstrom] 2, the surface area of a toroidal pore equals that of 105 lipids.
- Neutral sodium absorbs orange light - at wavelengths of 5890 and 5896 angstroms - from stars that lie behind it.
- Thus, weak couplings associated with internuclear distances of 10 [Angstrom] or more between lipids and peptides in membrane bilayers at 37°C simply cannot be determined by the available REDOR technology.