British physicists claim they’ve created the “world’s smallest violin” — and, by the looks of it, they could take a bow for their masterpiece invention.
The brainy bunch at Loughborough University used nanotechnology to build the teeny instrument, which is no bigger than a speck of dust and can only be seen with a microscope.
Made of platinum, the mini-instrument measures 35 microns, one-millionth of a meter long, and 13 microns wide. Loughborough explained on its website that it’s tiny enough to fit within the width of a human’s hair.
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The scientists created the violin, which is just a microscopic image and isn’t playable, as a test of the school’s new nanolithography system, which allows them to build and study structures at the nanoscale.
The project references the expression “Can you
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