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Re:What are “actual pictures” of atoms actually pictures of? by lanna on Saturday June 25, 2016 @05:20PM (#11978053)
It is the distinction between pictures and photographs: they definitively are pictures of atoms, but they aren't nor could ever be photographs.

Ultrasounds also are pictures, but not photographs.

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