nanocantilever

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nano- +‎ cantilever

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nanocantilever (plural nanocantilevers)

  1. (physics) A strip of silicon carbide, a few hundred nanometres in width, whose vibrational frequency varies in proportion to the mass of objects resting on it; it can detect masses as small as one attogram

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