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Gold leaf processing at a workshop in Kanazawa, Japan

Gold leaf processing at a workshop in Kanazawa, Japan

... that gold leaf is about 500 atoms thick?

... that, in the Large Hadron Collider, protons move at 99.9999991% the speed of light when accelerated with the energy of 7 TeV?

... that, at a speed of 299,792,458 m/s, light can travel from the Earth to the Moon in 1.2 seconds?

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