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Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in... by matsemann on Monday November 30, 2020 @01:13PM (#25256931)
What does that Å mean? Never seen our letter been used in a scientific context.
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Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in... by flobosg on Monday November 30, 2020 @01:14PM (#25256943)
Ångström, a length unit. 1 Å = 0.1 nm.
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Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in... by seslattery on Monday November 30, 2020 @01:16PM (#25256970)
It's the symbol for Angstrom, a unit of length 10^-10m https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angstrom
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Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in... by kolinko on Monday November 30, 2020 @02:45PM (#25258048)
0.1nm - approximately a size of an atom - used in organic chemistry often.
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Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in... by adw on Monday November 30, 2020 @11:32PM (#25262318)
Standard distance measure in most atomic-scale condensed-matter fields. Certainly inorganic crystallography/materials science/condensed matter physics.
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