Length Scales:

One nanometre, a billionth of a metre (1 nm = 10^-9 m), is truly tiny relative to objects considered small in everyday life. For example, a human hair is about 0.05 millimetres in diameter (i.e., 50 microns or 50,000 nm ).

Length Scales: From millimetres to nanometres.
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