| Like water beading on the surface of a freshly waxed car, the palladium formed granular clusters just a few nanometers across. |
| The diagram below at right shows a virus that attacks bacteria, known as the lambda bacteriophage, which measures roughly 200 nanometers. |
| This figure was used to convert subsequent contour measurements from nanometers to kilobases. |
| In fact, it can exhibit ordered structures with length scales ranging from micrometers to nanometers. |
| That distance varies from a few hundred nanometers to a few micrometers, depending on atom velocity. |
| Membrane tethers usually have diameters of the order of tens of nanometers, so they were barely visible under normal microscopic conditions. |
