How long is a piece of string?

How long is a piece of string?
What units of length you use to measure a piece of string will depend on how long the string is.
If you are putting up a string of Christmas lights you might measure the length of the string in metres or centimetres.
But if you are measuring the length of string, or ribbon, to tie back your hair you might measure the length of string in centimetres or millimetres.
1 centimetre is a hundredth of a metre: 1 cm = 10^-2 m
1 millimetre is a thousandth of a metre: 1mm = 10^-3 m
The metre is the SI base unit of length.
On the other hand, if your piece of string is holding 2 atoms together in a molecule you are going to need a very tiny piece of string, less than a billionth of a metre. Which is why chemists use units of length like the nanometre (1nm = 10^-9 m), the Ångstrom (1 Å = 10^-10 m), and the picometre (1 pm = 10^-12 m).
You will need to be familiar with these units and be able to convert one unit of length into another, so AUS-e-TUTE has just added new tutorials, games, tests to help our members do this.
If you are not a member, you can access a "free-to-view" tutorial at https://www.ausetute.com.au/lengthconv.html

X-Ray Diffraction and Electron Density Maps

Have you ever wandered how chemists determine the shape of molecules and ionic compounds?
How can they measure bond angles and bond lengths?
One of the most important ways to do this is to use X-ray diffraction.
AUS-e-TUTE has just added a new tutorial, game, test and exam to help you understand X-ray diffraction and electron density maps and to apply that understanding to solving problems in chemistry. AUS-e-TUTE Members should log-in to use these resources (under the Solid State Chemistry topic heading).
If you are not yet an AUS-e-TUTE Member then you can access the "free to view" tutorial at
https://www.ausetute.com.au/xdiffraction.html