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World’s thinnest gold ‘just two Aatoms thick’ created in lab – and it’s a million times thinner than a finger nail

GOLD that’s just two atoms thick has been created in a lab by British scientists.

The “world’s thinnest gold” is one million times thinner than a fingernail – and is so thin, it’s technically regarded as “two dimensional”.

The official measurement is 0.47 nanometres, made possible because the gold is made up of just two atoms sitting on top of each other.

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