Oops—the Wrong Science Word
rogersgeorge on February 12th, 2024
It’s in an article about discovering the proof for quantum mechanics. I made the incorrect word bold:
The next morning, he and colleagues developed the plate and struck gold: a silver deposit neatly split in two, like a kiss from the quantum realm. Gerlach documented the result in a microphotograph and shipped it as a postcard to Bohr, along with the message: “We congratulate you on the confirmation of your theory.”
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-often-overlooked-experiment-that-revealed-the-quantum-world-20231205/
The correct word is photomicrograph, not microphotograph. Photomicrograph means the graphic part is microscopic. A microphotograph would be something like what you find on microfilm.
Here’s a diagram of the device they used:
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