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To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between 10^-1 m and 1 m (10 cm and 1 m).
'Distances shorter than 10 cm'

Contents

Conversions

Wavelengths

Human-built structures

Nature

See also

Conversions

10 cm is equal to

★ 1 decimetre,

★ 100 millimetres,

★ 3.9 inches,

★ a side of a square of area 0.01 m²

★ edge of cube of volume 1 litre
91.44 cm is one yard

Wavelengths

★ 10.0 cm — wavelength of the highest UHF radio frequency, 3 GHz

★ 12.0 cm — wavelength of the 2.45 GHz ISM radio band

★ 21.0 cm — wavelength of the 1.4 GHz hydrogen emission line

★ 100 cm — wavelength of the lowest UHF radio frequency, 300 MHz

Human-built structures

★ 12.0 cm — diameter of a Compact disc (CD) (= 120mm)

★ 30.0 cm — typical school-use ruler length (= 300mm)

★ 60.0 cm — standard depth (front to back) of a domestic kitchen worktop in Europe (= 600mm)

Nature

★ 10.0 cm — diameter of the cervix upon entering the second stage of labour (in humans).

★ 14.0 cm — length of average human penis.

★ 66.0 cm — length of the longest pine cones (produced by the sugar pine)
'Distances longer than 1 m'

See also

★ Orders of magnitude (length)

★ Decimetre