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Abbreviation for the state of New Mexico, USA.
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The scientists hope one day to shrink light down to the size of an electron's wavelength, about a nanometre, or one billionth of a metre.
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One nanometre (1nm) equals one thousandth of a micrometer or one millionth of a millimetre, or about how much your fingernails grow each second.
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