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Barleycorn - traditional English length unit
Barleycorn is a historical unit of length in the Imperial/US systems, originally based on a grain of barley. Used today mainly as the step size in UK/Irish shoe sizing
- Symbol: none standardized (sometimes "bc")
- System: Imperial/US customary (historic)
- Exact relations: 1 barleycorn = 1/3 in (exact); 3 barleycorns = 1 in; 36 barleycorns = 1 ft
- Metric equivalents: 1 barleycorn = 25.4/3 mm ≈ 8.466666… mm ≈ 0.846666… cm
- Typical examples: consecutive UK shoe sizes differ by one barleycorn (≈ 1/3 in) in last length
Picometer (pm) — SI unit equal to one trillionth of a meter
Used to express atomic and subatomic dimensions such as bond lengths and ionic/atomic radii in chemistry and materials science
- Symbol: pm
- System: SI derived unit
- Exact relations: 1 pm = 10⁻¹² m = 0.001 nm = 10⁻⁶ µm = 0.01 Å = 1,000 fm
- Imperial/US equivalents: 1 pm ≈ 0.00000000003937007874 in
- Typical examples: covalent bond lengths ~100–200 pm; Bohr radius of hydrogen ~53 pm; atomic radii tens to a few hundred pm