Nanometers in example sentence

In the electrical transmission mediated by gap junctions, the plasma membranes of adjacent neurons are separated by a gap of about two nanometers (two-billionths of a meter), but contain small channels (the gap junctions) that connect the cytoplasm of the adjoining neurons, permitting the diffusion of small molecules and the flow of electric current.

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And if we just take one cell's worth of this code and unwind it, it's a meter long, two nanometers thick.

Two nanometers is 20 atoms in thickness.

And, well, you need this system to move the laser through, for example, at the very accurate level, about 200 nanometers, so very accurate.

DNA is about two nanometers across, which is really quite tiny.

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