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picosecond

NOUN
  1. one trillionth (10^-12) of a second; one thousandth of a nanosecond

How To Use picosecond In A Sentence

  • The lifetime of this fluorescent state is usually found to be approximately one-half picosecond.
  • While vibrations of chemical bonds take less than a picosecond, reorientations of protein segments may be observed within nanoseconds, and a transient complete unfolding of the protein may eventually occur within years.
  • If a water molecule enters or exits the defined region within a picosecond, only the portion of its displacement within the region contributes to the sum.
  • A typical chemical reaction takes place on a timescale of about a picosecond.
  • A picosecond of pure arrogance. Times, Sunday Times
  • Put another way, a picosecond is to one second what one second is to 31,700 years. Traders Slice the Second Even Thinner
  • Materials Sciences Division researchers have devised a breakthrough process that gives them the ability to image and stop the action of atomic scale events in picosecond freeze-frames.
  • Their values imply that a free proton will jump between adjacent loci once within a few picoseconds.
  • Our initial attempts at simulating with explicit water were unsuccessful because the computational limits of the large model confined trajectory lengths to only several picoseconds.
  • Ultrafast lasers operate with pulses ranging from tens of femtoseconds to a few picoseconds.
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