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  • One can say something like "the typical C-C bond length in diamond is 1.54 Angstroms, implying an atomic radius of 0.77 Angstroms", but the electrons "fill" the entire space of the crystal -- much more sparsely in the void spaces than along the bonds, of course.

    Making Light: The tastemakers of tomorrow 2010

  • When you do the sums, you find that the man-made CO2 molecules are 2 Angstroms wide and spaced about 1,200 Angstrom apart.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • When you do the sums, you find that the man-made CO2 molecules are 2 Angstroms wide and spaced about 1,200 Angstrom apart.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • And the undulators are built in such a way as to make the X-rays coherent, with a wavelength of 1.5 Angstroms (0.15 nanometer).

    Molecular Photography JoAnne 2006

  • Now, in 2000, comes out a paper using synchrotron radiation updating the earlier result and showin 1.0014 Angstroms to be the unit cell size.

    Is Gavin Schmidt Honest? « Climate Audit 2005

  • The unit cell of gold was determined in 1900 to be 1.00 Angstroms using a lab scale X-ray diffractometer.

    Is Gavin Schmidt Honest? « Climate Audit 2005

  • For example CO2 does not absorb energy from light in the frequency range of 4000 Angstroms blue, but the surface of the Earth does.

    Hits « Climate Audit 2005

  • Spock, he cut out at thirty-two hundred Angstroms!

    Pawns and Symbols Majliss Larson 2000

  • "You started at ten-thousand Angstroms and he came in here?"

    Pawns and Symbols Majliss Larson 2000

  • His visual light range runs from about sixty-four hundred Angstroms clear down into the ultraviolet range to about thirty-two hundred Angstroms.

    Pawns and Symbols Majliss Larson 2000

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