IBM制作出世界上最小的电影
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WASHINGTON, May 1 (Xinhua) -- Scientists from IBM on Wednesday unveiled the world's smallest movie, made with one of the tiniest elements in the universe: atoms.
Named "A Boy and His Atom," the movie used thousands of precisely 1 placed atoms to create nearly 250 frames of stop-motion action. It depicts 2 a character named Atom who befriends a single atom and goes on a playful journey that includes dancing, playing catch and bouncing on a trampoline.
"Capturing, positioning and shaping atoms to create an original motion picture on the atomic-level is a precise science and entirely 3 novel," said Andreas Heinrich, principle investigator 4 for the research in a statement.
"This movie is a fun way to share the atomic-scale world while opening up a dialogue with students and others on the new frontiers of math and science," Heinrich said.
IBM used a remotely operated scanning tunneling microscope to make the movie earlier this year. The microscope operates at a temperature of negative 268 degrees Celsius 5 and magnifies the atomic surface over 100 million times.
Researchers used the microscope to control a super-sharp needle along a copper 6 surface to "feel" atoms. Only 1 nanometer away from the surface, which is a billionth of a meter in distance, the needle can physically 7 attract atoms and molecules 8 on the surface and thus pull them to a precisely specified 9 location on the surface.
In the end, the scientists rendered still images of the individually arranged atoms, resulting in 242 single frames.
adv.恰好，正好，精确地，细致地
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描绘，描画( depict的第三人称单数 )； 描述
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ad.全部地，完整地；完全地，彻底地
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n.研究者，调查者，审查者
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adj.摄氏温度计的，摄氏的
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adj.物质上，体格上，身体上，按自然规律
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分子( molecule的名词复数 )
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- Inside the reactor the large molecules are cracked into smaller molecules. 在反应堆里，大分子裂变为小分子。
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