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This Stunning Image Is The Highest Resolution We've Ever Seen Atoms (www.sciencealert.com)
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[–] mriormro 8 points 3 months ago

It's incredible that we can actually 'see' the atomic lattice and it's also pretty wicked that the oxygen atom is more 'fuzzy' because, I think given the explanation on how they imaged this, it's less dense than praseodymium and scandium.