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How many nanometers wide is a human hair?

About 75,000

Background

A human hair is roughly 75,000 nanometers wide. One nanometer equals a millionth of a millimeter. For comparison, a modern chip transistor is only 3 nanometers small. A hair is about 25,000 times wider than a single transistor.

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