On Tuesday 30 August 2005 18:22, Miguel wrote:
> I was told that:
>  - the Royal Chemical Society mandates that everything be done in
> nanometers 
> - many publications no longer accept angstroms 

I remember a discussion on this on the list. But cannot find it with Google.
Conclusion indeed was that angstrom where to be phased out.

>  - angstroms are not even taught in European schools

At our university we did, but angstrom is indeed a non-standard distance 
measured and deprecated, though still often used.

> Those sounded like very good reasons to me.

Agreed. But it's switchable anyway, right?

> I am quite sure there was some discussion of this on the mailing list
> before I changed it.

Confirmed (see above).

Egon

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