<story><title>Atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real time</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2021-01-first-ever-atomic-resolution-video-salt.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>johtso</author><text>This reminds me of my first time using a microscope. I was on a course on mushroom identification and we were looking at spores and other microscopic features.&lt;p&gt;I was so surprised when I saw shapes in the viewfinder that didn&amp;#x27;t look organic. There were squares and pyramids, it looked like Aztec ruins. And they were growing before my eyes! I then realised it was the reagents crystallising in the heat of the lamp.&lt;p&gt;The world of microscopes is like magic, it&amp;#x27;s a shame that more people aren&amp;#x27;t exposed to it.&lt;p&gt;Even just a quality 10x hand lens opens up a whole world of detail that we don&amp;#x27;t usually see.</text></comment>
<story><title>Atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real time</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2021-01-first-ever-atomic-resolution-video-salt.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gavinray</author><text>&amp;quot;growing&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Expected video to show process of atoms slowly forming together or something to shape my mental model.&lt;p&gt;What I got was a full-formed grid of little atom things that just seemed to spring into existence between two frames.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s still cool. But I am not less confused.</text></comment>