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Kilometer (km) — SI unit of length equal to 1,000 meters
Used worldwide for road distances, mapping, and athletics. In the metric system it scales cleanly with meters and centimeters for everyday to large-scale measurements.
- Symbol: km
- System: SI derived unit
- Exact relations: 1 km = 1,000 m = 10⁵ cm = 10⁶ mm
- Imperial/US equivalents: 1 km ≈ 0.621371 mi ≈ 3,280.8399 ft ≈ 1,093.6133 yd
- Typical examples: intercity travel; 5 km and 10 km races
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