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n. - A unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of 39.97 inches.

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  • I'm sure that there's a reason you started to ask about making some kind of measurement at the 100 femtometer level but for now you've just baffled me.
  • Femto-neutrons or 'femtons' are fast neutrons of femtometer wavelength, a million times shorter than the current nanotechnology diagnostic probes which operate on...
  • The first unit to go into the field, pictured below, "can detect a 10 femtometer change in the position of its center chip.
  • 0.8768 femtometers, (a femtometer equals one quadrillionth of a meter).
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