Definition
The $\textit{femtometre}$ is an SI unit of length equal to $10^{-15} meter$. This distance can also be called $\textit{fermi}$ and was so named in honour of Enrico Fermi. It 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/FemtoM
Notation
fm
Status
Accepted