10 nanometres

10 nanometres

To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between 10−8 and 10−7 m (10 nm and 100 nm).

Distances shorter than 10 nm
*20 nm — width of bacterial flagellum
*40 nm — width of tobacco mosaic virus
*40 nm — extreme ultraviolet wavelength
*45 nm — size of the smallest transistors in a microprocessor produced in 2007.
*90 nm — Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (Generally, viruses range in size from 20 nm to 450 nm.)
*<100 nm &mdash; 90% of the particles of wood smokeDistances longer than 100 nm

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*Orders of magnitude (length)


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