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Summary Sentence: National Nanotechnology Day is October 9, which salutes the nanometer scale, 10-9 meters.
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How fast can you run 100 billion nanometers? Do you know that there are 1 billion nanometers (1,000,000,000 nm) in 1 meter? And that 100 billion nanometers = 100 meters? How fast can you run 100 m?? The NNCO would like to know by having you upload photos or videos of yourself running 100 billion nanometers.
