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  1. angstrom: Named after Swedish
  2. physicist and astronomer Anders
  3. Jonas ├àngstr├╢m, this unit of length is
  4. equal to one hundred-millionth of a
  5. centimeter. Angstroms are
  6. usedespecially to specify radiation
  7. wavelengths.