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James Tour: How Did Life Come into Being?

Socrates in the City

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How to Make Molecules in the Lab

"We work with molecules en masse, just like when you drink water," he says. "What we do is we do chemistry on groups of molecules that are in around bottom flask." He adds different reagents and then there's structures change based on the reagents they're added to. But again, to be clear, when we're talking about nanotechnology, you cannot see a single molecule.

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