Nov 21, 2024 (a week after my original post) Chemists create world's thinnest spaghetti by University College London The world's thinnest spaghetti, about 200 times thinner than a human hair, has been created by [...] The rest of the article is cut off. Above this opening paragraph is an image, a picture of a bunch of fibers in black and white. The caption underneath reads: The team used a scanning electron microscope, scanning the mat with a focused beam of electrons and creating an image based on the pattern of electrons that are deflected or knocked-off. Each individual strand is too narrow to be clearly captured by any form of visible light camera or microscope.
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