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Definition and details for angstrom:
Angstrom (Å or A) is a unit of length, equal to 0.1 nanometer or 10-10 meter. This unit was named Angstrom to honor the Swedish physicist Anders Jon Ångström (1814-1874) and is used to measure the wave length of light waves.
Definition and details for barleycorn:
Barleycorn is an old English unit of distance equal to 1/3 inch or about 8.47 millimeters. In farming societies was very common to use seeds as units of length. Barley was a basic crop in England. So barleycorn was a useful unit.
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