1 nanometre

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To help compare different orders of magnitudes this page lists lengths between 10⁻⁹ metres and 10⁻⁸ metres (1 nanometers and 10 nanometers).

1 nm = 1 nanometer = 1000 picometers = 10 ångströms
1 nm — rough length of a sucrose molecule, as calculated by Albert Einstein^{[citation needed]}
1.1 nm — diameter of a single-walled carbon nanotube^{[citation needed]}
2 nm — diameter of DNA helix^{[citation needed]}
3 nm — flying height of the head of a hard disk^{[citation needed]}
3.4 nm — length of a DNA turn (10 bp)^{[citation needed]}
3 × 8 nm — size of an albumin protein molecule^{[citation needed]}
6.8 nm — width of a haemoglobin molecule^{[citation needed]}

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Orders of magnitude for length in E notation, shorter than one metre:
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longer than 1 metre:
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