This is a prefix that shows that the original value must be reduced by a billion times, i.e. divided by a unit with nine zeros – 1,000,000,000.

At the end of the twentieth century, the existence of a certain size region of matter particles – the nanoscale region – finally became apparent.

At first it was very simple. In 2000, President Clinton signed the “National Nanotechnology Initiative” document.

There is a tremendous amount of matter on Earth that is not just difficult, but impossible to call homogeneous.