• MTK@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    You might mean a sheet of gold that is one atom thick, which would be visible and this would be true for most materials, but some are hard or impossible to produce.

    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
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      19 hours ago

      I’m trying to remember exactly but I think it was that if you can isolate a gold atom, you can bounce a laser on it and see the reflection with your eyes. Something about the reflection of gold and that being one of its interesting properties. Could be just my imagination though