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unusual facts about Ångström



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5577 Priestley

It was named (following a suggestion from Robert H. McNaught) after Joseph Priestley, as co-discoverer of the element oxygen, because green emission in the aurora (astronomy), due to atomic oxygen, occurs at a wavelength of 5577 angstroms (557.7 nanometers).

Forsterite

Forsterite crystallizes in the orthorhombic system (space group Pbnm) with cell parameters a 4.75 Å (0.475 nm), b 10.20 Å (1.020 nm) and c 5.98 Å (0.598 nm).

Rabbit Redux

Rabbit Redux finds the former high-school basketball star, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, working a dead-end job (as a Linotype operator at the local printing plant) and approaching middle age in the downtrodden and fictional city of Brewer, Pennsylvania, the place of his birth.

Shoo-Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy

The song is frequently mentioned in John Updike's 1988 novel Rabbit at Rest as a favorite childhood song of the protagonist, Pennsylvania native Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom.


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