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World’s Smallest Thing of the Day: Tis the season to be silly at the National Physical Laboratory, where scientists have constructed the world’s smallest snowman by shooting a focused ion beam at nano-scale tin beads used in the correction of electron microscope astigmatism.
The final product measures a ridiculous 10 µm across — 1/5th the width of a human hair.
Check out the making of here.
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Posted on December 4, 2009 via The Daily What with 351 notes
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i know it’s kinda late but this is just so cool
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Aww, so sweet. And brilliant.
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World’s Smallest Thing of the Day: Tis the season to be silly at the National Physical Laboratory, where scientists have constructed the world’s smallest snowman by shooting a focused ion beam at nano-scale tin beads used in the correction of electron microscope astigmatism.
The final product measures a ridiculous 10 µm across — 1/5th the width of a human hair.
Check out the making of here.
[via.]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ku56x4pajh1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)