Comment on 1.2 Å

• Hule@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  … However, they soon realized that the definition of the metre at the time, based on a material artifact, was not accurate enough for their work. So, around 1907 they defined their own unit of length, which they called “Ångström”, based on the wavelength of a specific spectral line. It was only in 1960, when the metre was redefined in the same way, that the angstrom became again equal to 10^10 metre. Wikipedia

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