• jaybone@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Did they actually do this? That still looks like it would be a hell of a lot of “individual atoms”

      Do we have 3D atom printers? Is that a thing?

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        1 year ago

        The scale shows it being 20 microns in width, so it’s still pretty big, relative to individual atoms. A micron is 10^-6 meters while the width of a hydrogen atom is about 10^-10 meters.