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billionCardinal number represented by a 1 followed by nine zeros (1,000,000,000 or 109), equivalent to a thousand million. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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5 percent because the billionths of a gram traces found are many thousands of times less than the hormones produced by our own bodies and found naturally in even organic meat, milk, eggs, soy and other foods. The "new" Loran has a vastly stronger radio signal of 400-1,600 kW and its timing is accurate to within billionths of a second. Lasers can now routinely generate pulses lasting just millionths or billionths of a second, or femtoseconds, so scientists have begun to produce what amount to snapshots of fleeting, intermediate stages of chemical reactions. |
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