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This sculpture has been created by Prof. Reinhard Reitzenstein. It is an artistic representation of the electron probability cloud for a giant two-atom rubidium molecule. Such molecules have been called ‘trilobite’ states because of their uncanny resemblance to a trilobite, an ancient hardshelled creature that lived in the Earth’s seas over 300 million years ago.

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