How did two atoms of hydrogen wind up welded to a single atom of oxygen?
This let researchers see objects as small as 1 nanometer in size--about five times larger than a single atom.
The idea was to get one of each type of atom to stick together to become a single atom of element 118.
Imagine that the visible universe and everything in it was once contained in a volume many times smaller than the size of a single atom.
In the experiment at Bonn, the researchers fired two lasers in sequence at a single atom of cesium, moving it to the left or right.
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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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Physicists at the University of New South Wales have created a transistor composed of a single atom, which is an amazing feat of nanoengineering, and could provide a better foundation for scalable quantum computing.
Researchers at Griffith University have managed to snap the first image of a single atom's shadow and, while the dark spot may be physically small, the implications for the field of quantum computing are huge.
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Once that is done, another laser pulse will jostle the virus from its ground state into an excited state, just as a single atom is excited by moving one of its electrons from a lower to a higher orbital.
And many of these samples we study literally at the atomic, single-atom level.
After tinkering for a few weeks, Howard realized he could stabilize the molecule (and thus eliminate the toxicity problem) by adding a single chlorine atom.
Any simple alcohol is composed of a number of carbon and hydrogen atoms (like a hydrocarbon such as petrol) together with a single oxygen atom.
Three high-performance MIPS computing cores--or brains--can be crammed into the same space within a phone or mobile device as a single Intel Atom mobile processor core without increasing the device's power draw.
The technique is so sensitive that it can detect a single radioactive carbon atom hiding among a quadrillion (one million billion) ordinary ones.
Just as we heard, there's about a 20 percent improvement -- most other single-core Atom N450 netbooks score around 1, 200 on PCMark05, while the Mini 5103 notched a 1, 866.
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Hydrogen, the simplest atom, consists of a single proton encircled by a single electron.
If one were to try to measure the state of the atom, it would "collapse" into a single state.
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The IBM team's innovation to create the first single molecule picture, of a molecule called pentacene, was to use the tip to pick up a single, small molecule made up of a carbon and an oxygen atom.
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