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Length > metre > fermi

Preferred term

A71fermi  

Definition

  • The $\ extit{fermi}$, or $\ extit{femtometer}$ (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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Notation

  • A71
  • fm

URI

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

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