Nanotechnology

What is nanotechnology?

• The branch of technology that deals with dimensions and tolerances of less than 100 nanometers

• Some experts

• People who discover dinosaur fossils

• Computer assistants

What can we do with nanotechnology?

• Make little bots to heal cancer and find tumors

• Keep food fresh for longer

• We can’t do anything with it

• Make planes that the radar can’t even detect

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In the time it takes for you to read this sentence, your fingernails have already grown ____ nanometers (nm)

• 2

• 1

• 20

• 10

A nm to a meter as an eye blink is to one year

• True

• False

If the atoms in your body were the size of golf balls, your body would be tall enough to reach ____!

• The sky

• Earth’s atmosphere

• The moon

• The sun

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In terms of science, What gives us hope to people who are fighting serious diseases?

• Nanobots

• In the future, in the very distant future

• Nanoparticles

• Rely on your white blood cells, they can do pretty much everything

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A piece of paper is approximately ____ nm thick

• 10

• 200

• 100,000

• One billion

When was nanotechnology discovered?

• Now, because our scientists are so lazy

• 1959

• 2010

• 1888