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To: LibWhacker

Personally, I don’t think you could get this to work in large enough scale to be usable.
Back 20 years ago, IBM spelled out IBM in, I think gold atoms using an electron microscope and some other equipment.

Creating functional molecular bonds is more difficult than just moving atoms around.

Interesting idea though


3 posted on 08/10/2014 9:33:17 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Zathras

The apparatus would at the very least require a database-like library of known pathways and kinetic data to synthesize a practical route from reactants to products.


5 posted on 08/10/2014 10:10:45 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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