The femtometre (American spelling femtometer, symbol fm) (Danish: femten, `fifteen`; Ancient Greek: μέτρον, metrοn, `unit of measurement`) is an SI unit of length equal to 10−15 metres. This distance can also be called fermi and was so named in honour of physicist Enrico Fermi, as it is a typical length-scale of nuclear physics. ==Def... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femtometre
(from the article `atom`) ...football field. In volume the nucleus takes up only 1014 of the space in the atomi.e., 1 part in 100 trillion. A convenient unit of length for ... Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/f/16