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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 precisely1 placed atoms to create nearly 250 frames of stop-motion action. It depicts2 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 entirely3 novel," said Andreas Heinrich, principle investigator4 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 Celsius5 and magnifies the atomic surface over 100 million times.
  Researchers used the microscope to control a super-sharp needle along a copper6 surface to "feel" atoms. Only 1 nanometer away from the surface, which is a billionth of a meter in distance, the needle can physically7 attract atoms and molecules8 on the surface and thus pull them to a precisely specified9 location on the surface.
  In the end, the scientists rendered still images of the individually arranged atoms, resulting in 242 single frames.

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1 precisely zlWzUb     
adv.恰好,正好,精确地,细致地
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2 depicts fd8ee09c0b2264bb6b44abf7282d37f6     
描绘,描画( depict的第三人称单数 ); 描述
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3 entirely entirely     
ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地
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  • The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
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4 investigator zRQzo     
n.研究者,调查者,审查者
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5 Celsius AXRzl     
adj.摄氏温度计的,摄氏的
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  • The temperature tonight will fall to seven degrees Celsius.今晚气温将下降到七摄氏度。
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6 copper HZXyU     
n.铜;铜币;铜器;adj.铜(制)的;(紫)铜色的
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  • The students are asked to prove the purity of copper.要求学生们检验铜的纯度。
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7 physically iNix5     
adj.物质上,体格上,身体上,按自然规律
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8 molecules 187c25e49d45ad10b2f266c1fa7a8d49     
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adj.特定的
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