Nanosecond

Common measurements

• 0.5 nanoseconds – the half-life of beryllium-13.
• 0.96 nanoseconds – 100 Gigabit Ethernet Interpacket gap
• 1.0 nanosecond – cycle time of an electromagnetic wave with a frequency of 1 GHz.
• 1.0 nanosecond – electromagnetic wavelength of 1 light-nanosecond. Equivalent to 0.3m radio band.
• nanoseconds – time taken by light to travel 1 foot in a vacuum.
• nanoseconds – time taken by light to travel 1 metre in a vacuum.
• 10 nanoseconds – one "shake", approximate time of one generation of a nuclear chain reaction with fast neutrons
• 10 nanoseconds – cycle time for frequency 100 MHz, radio wavelength 3 m
• 10 nanoseconds – half-life of lithium-12
• 12 nanoseconds – mean lifetime of a K meson
• 20–40 nanoseconds – time of fusion reaction in a hydrogen bomb
• 30 nanoseconds – half-life of carbon-21
• 77 nanoseconds – a sixth
• 96 nanoseconds – Gigabit Ethernet Interpacket gap
• 100 nanoseconds – cycle time for frequency 10 MHz, radio wavelength 30 m
• 299 nanoseconds – half-life of polonium-212
• 333 nanoseconds – cycle time of highest medium wave radio frequency, 3 MHz
• 500 nanoseconds – T1 time of Josephson phase qubit as of May 2005
• 1,000 nanoseconds – one microsecond
• 1,000,000 nanoseconds – one millisecond