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Nanomaterials

The products of the chemical industry are used to produce objects that vary enormously in size, from steel girders in bridges to silicon chips in microprocessors. Techniques are now available that make it possible to manipulate materials on the atomic or molecular scale, producing objects that are no more than a few nanometres in diameter

‘Materials chemistry’ and ‘allotropes of carbon’ are key topics on the A-level chemistry specifications.

Ananometre is 1 ×10–9 metres (one billionth of a metre). The processes used to make and manipulate materials on a nanometre scale are known as nanotechnology. The materials or objects themselves are called nanomaterials.

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