Imagine you have a tiny ball that is so small, you can't see it even with the strongest magnifying glass. To make this tiny ball visible, scientists use a special tool called an electron microscope, which uses beams of tiny particles instead of light to create images of things as small as one atom.
Examples
- Using a scanning tunneling microscope, scientists can see individual atoms like they are tiny blocks in a LEGO set.
- A single atom is so small that you might need to use an electron microscope, not just any regular one, but a special kind called the scanning tunneling microscope.
- Imagine trying to read a book with letters as small as a single atom, that’s what scientists do every day.
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See also
- How Can a Single Atom Hold a Whole World Inside It?
- How Can a Single Atom Light Up an Entire Room?
- How Can a Single Atom Hold So Many Secrets?
- What is nanophotonics?
- How Can a Single Atom Hold Thousands of Images?