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[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 days ago (19 children)

The energy from nuclear reactions can be astonishingly large (compared to, say, chemical reactions).

But atoms are really, really, really small.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (18 children)

people with good vision can probably see a single gold atom, I seem to remember that one useless fact about the smallest things we can see

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You might mean a sheet of gold that is one atom thick, which would be visible and this would be true for most materials, but some are hard or impossible to produce.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I'm trying to remember exactly but I think it was that if you can isolate a gold atom, you can bounce a laser on it and see the reflection with your eyes. Something about the reflection of gold and that being one of its interesting properties. Could be just my imagination though

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