Imagine a sheet of carbon atoms laid out on a hexagonal grid, like chicken-wire.

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Think of it as a sheet of chicken-wire that is just a single atom thick, but also lightweight, strong, airtight, stretchable, transparent and an excellent conductor of both electricity and light.

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In Afghanistan, the foam would be wrapped in a low-tech layer of chicken wire, then covered in a thin layer of concrete.

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He ran copper leads from the transformer to chicken wire on the chair seat and duct-taped it down.

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