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Caption: At upper right, a cadmium sulfide nanosphere before stress is applied. The hollow sphere is partly transparent to the electron beam. At lower right, the sphere after being stressed to the point of failure.
Credit: Andrew Minor, National Center for Electron Microscopy
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