[Jmol-users] Angstroms and Nanometres

[Warwick Bailey]

My vote is for nanometres as the default. I recently prepared some Java Applets for the Education Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry in the UK, and they would not accept anything that did not implement SI units - so nm, not Angstroms.

I support Miguels view, given that the primary focus for JMol is in educational environments, where year on year students are better schooled in the application of SI units, rather then Angstoms, - the proportion of "Angstom" based users will decline year on year too.

Finally, as scientists, we should be encouraging the adoption of SI units as a rational, international agreed framework, rather than Angstroms, where the justification is more historical, cultural and legacy.

Warwick

Warwick R Bailey MRSC CChem
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