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How to Make Molecules That Are Effectively Cars
You can see a single molecule by scanning telomechroscopy, or AFM. But that's not how you do chemistry. Tom had forced my cross-speed. All right, so let's go back to that. Describe molecules that are effectively cars. You were able to do this. Yes. So each molecule, it's one molecule, they're very small. You can part 50,000 of them across the diameter of a human hair. On the diameter... Side to side... ...carved since they're cars. yes.
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