Chaotic behavior is typically known from large systems: for example, from weather, from asteroids in space that are simultaneously attracted by several large celestial bodies, or from swinging pendulums that are coupled together. On the atomic scale, however, one does normally not encounter chaos — other effects predominate. Now scientists have been able to detect clear indications of chaos on the nanometer scale — in chemical reactions on tiny rhodium crystals.
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