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An
ångström or
angstrom (symbol
Å) (;
Swedish: ) is a non-
SI unit of length that's internationally recognized, equal to 0.1
nanometre or 1 metres. It is sometimes used in expressing the sizes of
atoms, lengths of
chemical bonds and
visible-light spectra, and dimensions of parts of integrated circuits. It is commonly applied in
structural biology. It is named after
Anders Jonas Ångström.
Unicode includes the "angstrom sign" at U+212B (Å). However, the "angstrom sign" is
normalized into U+00C5 (Å), and is thereby seen as a (pre-existing) encoding mistake, and it's better to use U+00C5 (Å) directly.
History
The ångström is named after the
Swedish physicist Anders Jonas Ångström (1814–1874), one of the founders of
spectroscopy who is known also for studies of
astrophysics,
heat transfer,
terrestrial magnetism, and the
aurora borealis.
In 1868, Ångström created a spectrum chart of
solar radiation that expresses the
wavelength of
electromagnetic radiation in the
electromagnetic spectrum in multiples of one ten-millionth of a
millimetre, or 1
metres. This unit of
length became known as the 'Ångström unit', and later simply as the ångström, Å.
The visual sensitivity of a human being is from about 4,000 ångströms (
violet) to 7,000 ångströms (
dark red) so the use of the ångström as a unit provided a fair amount of discrimination without resort to fractional units. Because of its closeness to the scale of atomic and molecular structures it also became popular in
chemistry and
crystallography.
Although intended to correspond to 1 metres, for precise spectral analysis the ångström needed to be defined more accurately than the metre which until 1960 was still defined based on the length of a bar of metal held in
Paris. In 1907 the
International Astronomical Union defined the international ångström by making the wavelength of the red line of
cadmium in
air equal to 6438.4696 international ångströms, and this definition was endorsed by the
International Bureau of Weights and Measures in 1927. From 1927 to 1960, the ångström remained a secondary unit of length for use in spectroscopy, defined separately from the metre, but in 1960, the metre itself was redefined in spectroscopic terms, thus aligning the ångström as a submultiple of the metre.
Since the ångström is now defined as exactly 1 metres, there are therefore 10,000 ångströms in a
micrometre (commonly called a 'micron', abbreviated μm, of which there are 1 million to a metre), and 10 in a nanometre (1 nm = 1 metres).
Today, the use of the ångström as a unit is less popular than it used to be and the nanometre (nm) is often used instead (with the ångström being officially discouraged by both the International Committee for Weights and Measures and the
American National Standard for Metric Practice).
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