How to Convert Nanometers to Thousandths
- 1). Establish the ratio between a thousandth of a meter and a nanometer by dividing 1/1,000 by 10^-9.
- 2). Analyze the answer you obtained. 1/1,000 divided by 10^-9 is 1,000,000. It can therefore be construed that 1 nanometer is equal to 1,000,000 thousandths of a meter. For clarification, a thousandths of a meter is also known as a millimeter. So 1 nanometer (nm) is equal to 1,000,000 millimeters (mm). This can be expressed by the equation mm = nm / 1,000,000.
- 3). Plug the number of nanometers into the equation to solve for the number of thousandths of a meter, or millimeters. Given 500 nanometers, the equation would read:
500 / 1,000,000 = .0005 mm.
So 500 nanometers is equal to .0005 thousandths of a meter, or .0005 millimeters.
