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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   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

Etymology

From nano- + cantilever.

Related phrases

silicon carbide

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