Using laser tweezers, chemists nudged two atoms to bond
It’s the first time chemists have manipulated two atoms to create a compound
GETTING TOGETHER For the first time, researchers have picked out two specific atoms and smashed them into each other (as suggested in this artist's conception) to form a single molecule.
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