Advances in Ultrameasurement.

• Autores: Steven Ashley
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 298, Nº. 1, 2008, págs. 46-47
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article reports on the construction of pipettes that can dispense incredibly tiny amounts of liquids. Physicists Peter W. Sutter and Eli A. Sutter have made a pipette that can release a droplet that is measured in a unit a thousand times smaller than before, called a zeptoliter, which is a sextillionth of a liter. Research in Japan and England has allowed physicists to improve the accuracy of measurement in quantum metrology.