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DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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Visualization of a molecular movie made with SLAC's electron camera, in which researchers have captured in atomic detail how a ring-shaped molecule opens up in the first 800 millionths of a billionth of a second after being hit by a laser flash. Ring-opening reactions like this one play important roles in chemistry, such as the light-driven synthesis of vitamin D in our bodies.

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Thomas Wolf/PULSE Institute

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