Thursday, August 10, 2006

Amazing photo of tungsten needle: sharpest manmade thing


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"A field ion microscope (FIM) image of a very sharp tungsten needle. The small round features are individual atoms. The lighter colored elongated features are traces captured as atoms moved during the imaging process (approximately 1 second)."
Link (Thanks, Ginohn!)



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