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View larger image |Speck of dust, grain of sand — whatever your reference for tiny, let it go. Nanosized objects are much, much smaller. A typical carbon nanotube is 1.3 nanometers wide, and a 5-foot-7-inch man stands 1.7 billion nanometers tall.
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