Amazing nano facts!
There are three pages of nano facts, click the numbers to see all of them.
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The Forth Railway Bridge in Scotland could be painted 5 times over with just 1 litre of paint, if the paint was only 1 nanometre thick!
A flea is approximately 1 million nanometres wide!
If a seagull lands on the deck of an aircraft carrier, the ship will sink by 1 nanometre!
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If you lined up 80,000 nano particles in a row, they would be the same diameter as a single hair from your head!
A grain of sand on the beach takes about 34 million years to dissolve. A nanometre-sized grain of sand would dissolve in about 1 second!
Even if a gecko were 200 times heavier, it would still be able to walk on the ceiling - thanks to the nano hairs on its feet!
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By 2015, the world will need 2 million people working in nanotechnology!
Your fingernails grow at about 1 nanometre a second. That's 0.6mm a week!
If a nano particle was as big as a football, then a doughnut would be the size of the UK!