atom

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His work built on an earlier proposal by Max Planck in 1900 that atoms emit and absorb energy in discrete packets rather than continuous amounts.

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This type of radiation, known as Lyman alpha light, is released in large amounts when hydrogen atoms absorb energy from nearby stars.

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Materials can behave in surprising ways when they are thinned down layer by layer until they are only a single atom thick.

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As chips have grown more complex and their components have shrunk to the scale of individual atoms, even minor irregularities can affect how devices operate.

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At this incredibly small timescale, atoms inside molecules are constantly vibrating.

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