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nol13 on March 9, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: IBM has found a way to store data on a single atom

If there's an atom there, it's a 1?

Sanddancer on March 9, 2017 [–]

Magnetic orientation, probably. Elsethread, it was mentioned that they used Holmium, which is the most magnetically reactive element.

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