Benzene’s bond lengths corrected

My chemistry professor told me 10 Ångström is about how long your fingernails grow in the time it takes to say "10 Ångström"

This is the paper behind that story: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC9347355&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC9347355&#x2F;</a>

Knowing very little about chemistry and physics, I always enjoy learning the names of new measurements.<p>Milliangstroms? Lmao great name.

Note that the length of the C-C bound is ~1.3Å and the length of the C-H is ~1.0Å, so te corrections is like .5%.

I’m curious will this new knowledge will lead to new discoveries which might not have been possible due to working with the incorrect lengths in calculations?

1 Ångström = 1e-10 m<p>11.5 mÅ = 1.15e-12 m<p>That’s a mind boggling measurement.

Makes me wonder if this will result in any computational chemistry projects needing to be reworked.

Fun fact, even though most of the world pronounces it &quot;angstrum&quot;, &quot;Ångström&quot; should actually be pronounced &quot;ongstrum&quot; (as the Swedish still do).

So ... I&#x27;m guessing chemistry wasn&#x27;t really sensitive to the difference, except in whatever few &quot;edge cases&quot; prompted this re-examination?

&gt; milliangstroms<p>There is a perfectly sensible nearby SI unit called the picometre (pm). 10 mÅ = 1 pm. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Picometre" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Picometre</a>

Title is cringe:<p>&gt; Benzene’s bond lengths corrected<p>First, passive voice should not be used when avoidable.<p>Second, the bond lengths are fine. It&#x27;s the measurement that was wrong.