thisistheverge:See the very first images of a hydrogen...

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See the very first images of a hydrogen bond

Chemists have long known what a hydrogen bond should look like, but until last week, most hadn’t actually seen an image of one. Now, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have been able to visualize a hydrogen bond using atomic force microscopy, a technique that can deliver higher resolution than even a scanning tunneling microscope.

This is astounding to me. If anyone had asked me if a hydrogen bind had been photographed be...