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** 125 μm -- [[Dust mite]] |
** 125 μm -- [[Dust mite]] |
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* [[1 E-3 m|10<sup>-3</sup> m]] = 1 [[millimeter]] (mm) |
* [[1 E-3 m|10<sup>-3</sup> m]] = 1 [[millimeter]] (mm) |
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** 2.54 mm -- distance between pins in old [[DIP]] (dual- |
** 2.54 mm -- distance between pins in old [[DIP]] (dual-inline-pins) electronic components |
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* [[1 E-2 m|10<sup>-2</sup> m]] = 1 [[centimeter]] (cm) |
* [[1 E-2 m|10<sup>-2</sup> m]] = 1 [[centimeter]] (cm) |
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** 1.5 cm -- length of an average [[mosquito]]. |
** 1.5 cm -- length of an average [[mosquito]]. |
Revision as of 01:34, 5 October 2003
This is a list of orders of magnitude for length. Other lists for time, area, volume, mass and dimensionless numbers are also available, and an overview is at order of magnitude.
- 10-35 m
- Lengths smaller than this do not make any physical sense. See Planck length
- [...]
- 10-18 m = 1 attoometer (am)
- 10-15 m = 1 femtometer (fm)
- Size of atomic nucleus
- 10-14 m
- 10-13 m
- 10-12 m = 1 picometer (pm)
- 10-11 m
- 10-10 m = 1 Ångström
- Size of smallest atoms
- 10-9 m = 1 nanometer (nm)
- Diameter of DNA helix
- 10-8 m = 10 nm
- 20 nm -- thickness of bacterial flagellum
- 90 nm -- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
- 10-7 m = 100 nm
- 100 nm -- Maximum particle size that can fit through a surgical mask
- wavelengths of visible light
- 10-6 m = 1 micrometer aka micron (μm)
- diameter of typical bacterium
- 6 μm -- anthrax spore
- 7 μm -- strand of spider web
- 10-5 m = 10 μm
- 10-4 m = 100 μm
- 125 μm -- Dust mite
- 10-3 m = 1 millimeter (mm)
- 2.54 mm -- distance between pins in old DIP (dual-inline-pins) electronic components
- 10-2 m = 1 centimeter (cm)
- 10-1 m = 10 cm
- 1 m
- 10 m
- 20 m -- Length of a cricket pitch
- 52 m -- Height of Niagara Falls
- 100 m
- 300 m -- Height of the Eiffel tower
- 448 m -- Height of the Empire State building
- 647 m -- Height of the Warszawa Radio Mast, tallest man-made structure, collapsed in 1991
- 1 000 m = 1 kilometer (km)
- 1609 m = 1 international mile
- 1805 m = 1 nautical mile
- 8850 m -- Height highest mountain, Mount Everest
- 10 000 m = 10 km
- 11,518 m -- Mindanao deep
- 35 km -- Width of the English Channel
- 100 000 m = 100 km
- 106 m = 1 000 km
- 3 480 km -- Diameter of the Moon
- 6 400 km -- The length of the Great Wall of China
- 107 m = 10 000 km
- 108 m = 100 000 km
- 384 000 km -- Moon's orbital distance from Earth
- 109 m = 1 million km
- 1 390 000 km -- Diameter of Sun
- 1010 m = 10 million km
- 1011 m = 100 million km
- 150 million km -- 1 astronomical unit (au); Mean distance between Earth and Sun.
- 1012 m = 1 billion km
- 1013 m = 10 billion km
- 1014 m = 100 billion km
- 1015 m = 1 trillion km
- 9.5 trillion km = 1 light year -- distance travelled by light in one year
- 1016 m
- 3.26 light years -- 1 parsec
- 4.2 light years -- Distance to nearest star (Proxima Centauri)
- 1017 m
- 1018 m
- 1019 m
- 1020 m
- 100 000 light years -- diameter of galactic disk of Milky Way Galaxy
- 1021 m
- 2.3 million light years -- Distance to Andromeda Galaxy
- 1022 m
- 1023 m
- 1024 m
- 1025 m
- 1026 m
See also: SI, SI prefixes, SI base units, units, length, orders of magnitude