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What If We Could Shrink Technology?

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Nano Is Not Just Small, It's Also Strange

When you get down to this teeny tiny size, materials don't have the same properties that they might when you're working with them at human size. If i were to cluster 80 gold atoms together and then float them in a solvent, gold wouldn't be gold any more. It would be red. So that's the strange part. We're going to get back to using nano particles to deliver their blimp full of drug socker balls in a second - but first let's go back to what anisa said about nano.

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