Title
Regulating nanotechnology in South Africa
Date of this Version
1-1-2010
Document Type
Book Chapter
ISBN
978-0-7021-8547-2
Abstract
A nanometre (nm) is one thousand millionth of a metre. To put this into context a simple human hair is about 80,000nm wide. A red blood cell is approximately 7,000nm wide, while a water molecule is almost 0.3nm across. Scientists researching on the nanoscale (which they consider to range from 100nm down to the size of atoms which are less than 0.2nm) do so to investigate the properties of materials which they have discovered can be very different at that scale than they are at a larger scale.
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Lupton, M. (2010). Regulating nanotechnology in South Africa. In M. Kidd & S. Hoctor (Eds.), Stella Iuris: Celebrating 100 years of teaching law in Pietermaritzburg (pp. 233-246). Claremont, Zambia: Juta & Co Ltd.
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