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*Note* There was a sentence in the video that seemed to suggest the mirrors are less than an atom thick. To clarify, the mirrors are polished to a smoothness of less than one atom's thickness. Not that the mirrors themselves are less than one atom thick.

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Sources:
4:48 National Informal STEM Education Network (NISE) video on YouTube (Creative commons attribution - reuse allowed) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxv3JoS1uY8
1:12 Image sourced from Alamy (Newsthink Ltd. is a registered client)

Articles referenced:
3:39 New York Times article https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/04/technology/tech-cold-war-chips.html