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Most Detailed Photos of an Atom Yet
BuzzSkyline writes "Ukrainian researchers have managed to take pictures of atoms that reveal structure of the electron clouds surrounding carbon nuclei in unprecedented detail. Although the images offer no surprises (they look much like the sketches of electron orbitals included in high school science texts), this is the first time that anyone has directly imaged atoms at this level, rather than inferring the structure of the orbitals from indirect measurements such as electron or X-ray interferometry."
The shadows are all wrong.
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Unscaled, wow. That is one HUGE atom.... no wonder they were capable of photographing it.
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Looks like a smurf sat on the photocopier.
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