{"id":26996,"date":"2009-08-28T16:01:39","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T16:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/08\/28\/you-cant-see-atomic-bonds-or-c\/"},"modified":"2009-08-28T16:01:39","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T16:01:39","slug":"you-cant-see-atomic-bonds-or-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/28\/you-cant-see-atomic-bonds-or-c\/","title":{"rendered":"You can&#8217;t see atomic bonds. Or can you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atomic bonds are too small to see, right?  Well, what do you suppose THIS is a picture of!?!?!?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-d13dd85d89d7af9036e25ec2b4c86559-atomic_bonds.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-960b65319565b7bb470a2d3ed1b54987-atomic_bonds-thumb-500x858-18250.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-960b65319565b7bb470a2d3ed1b54987-atomic_bonds-thumb-500x858-18250.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThat B&#038;W structure is an actual image of a molecule and its atomic bonds. The first of its kind, in fact, and a breakthrough for the crazy IBM scientists in Zurich who spent 20 straight hours staring at the &#8220;specimen&#8221;&#8211;which in this case was a 1.4 nanometer-long pentacene molecule comprised of 22 carbon atoms and 14 hydrogen atoms.<\/p>\n<p>You can actually make out each of those atoms and their bonds, and it&#8217;s thanks to this: An atomic force microscope.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5346964\/ibm-takes-first-3d-image-of-atomic-bonds\">Details here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/photography.zvan.net\/\">Ben<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atomic bonds are too small to see, right? Well, what do you suppose THIS is a picture of!?!?!? That B&#038;W structure is an actual image of a molecule and its atomic bonds. The first of its kind, in fact, and a breakthrough for the crazy IBM scientists in Zurich who spent 20 straight hours staring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/28\/you-cant-see-atomic-bonds-or-c\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You can&#8217;t see atomic bonds. Or can you?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-71q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}