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Title: Single molecule pictured for the first time.
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URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet ... -grain-sand-pictured-time.html
Published: Aug 29, 2009
Author: Claire Bates
Post Date: 2009-08-29 21:38:01 by Armadillo
Keywords: molecule, atomic, picture, pentacene
Views: 316
Comments: 10
This is very cool. It may look like a piece of honeycomb, but this lattice-shaped image is the first ever close-up view of a single molecule. Scientists from IBM used an atomic force microscope (AFM) to reveal the chemical bonds within a molecule. 'This is the first time that all the atoms in a molecule have been imaged,' lead researcher Leo Gross said. pentacene The delicate inner structure of a pentacene molecule has been imaged with an atomic force microscope The researchers focused on a single molecule of pentacene, which is commonly used in solar cells. The rectangular-shaped organic molecule is made up of 22 carbon atoms and 14 hydrogen atoms. 
In the image above the hexagonal shapes of the five carbon rings are clear and even the positions of the hydrogen atoms around the carbon rings can be seen. To give some perspective, the space between the carbon rings is only 0.14 nanometers across, which is roughly one million times smaller than the diameter of a grain of sand.
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#1. To: Armadillo (#0)
Oh too cool!
Very cool indeed! bump
Is it possible that a structure so perfect could be the result of chaos or an accident ?
The U.S. Govt is a tyrannical butcher; U.S. taxpayers are accomplices to international murder and mayhem. If you satisfy your fears by bowing to this butcher, you forfeit your humanity for a pound of flesh.
Looks lide a woolyworm. Ohmigod, I'm made of woolyworms!
In my opinion, the clockwork universe implys a watchmaker. ------- Ditto. I once heard a nuclear scientist state: "to believe that an explosion and the resultant chaos created this universe is tantamount to believing a tornado could hit a junk yard and build a space shuttle" !!!
The U.S. Govt is a tyrannical butcher; U.S. taxpayers are accomplices to international murder and mayhem. If you satisfy your fears by bowing to this butcher, you forfeit your humanity for a pound of flesh.
Which modern religion would that be? The kill-all-the-goyim religion? The kill-all-the-Muslims-and-fellate-the-jews religion? The kill-all-the-infidels religion? As long as modern religion remains nothing more than a mass mental illness, it's worthless.
As long as you are around....Everyone will have an example of the mind of a nazi. You have no redeeming values.
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it - Thomas Jefferson
Case-in-point.
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"If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute." --Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
#2. To: Armadillo (#0)
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#4. To: Armadillo (#0)
There's no place better thanTurtle Island.
#5. To: noone222 (#3)
Is it possible that a structure so perfect could be the result of chaos or an accident ?
I believe in God, and I also have loved science all my life. I think science and modern religion are wonderfully complimentary.
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
-Carl Sagan.
#6. To: Armadillo (#5)
I think science and modern religion are wonderfully complimentary.
#7. To: Armadillo (#5)
(Edited)
I think science and modern religion are wonderfully complimentary.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#8. To: Esso (#7)
As long as modern religion remains nothing more than a mass mental illness, it's worthless.
#9. To: Armidillo (#8)
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#10. To: Esso, farmfriend (#7)
As long as modern religion remains nothing more than a mass mental illness, it's worthless.
Curious.
Is there an atheist equivalent to Mother Teresa?
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
-Carl Sagan.
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