Definition

The $\textit{fermi}$, or $\textit{femtometer}$ (other spelling $femtometre$, symbol $fm$) is an SI unit of length equal to $10^{-15} metre$. This distance is often encountered in nuclear physics as a characteristic of this scale. The symbol for the fermi is also $fm$.

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IRI

https://vocab.sentier.dev/units/unit/FM

Notation

fm

Status

Accepted