World's Smallest Olympic Rings

The London 2012 Summer Olympics is almost here, and to commemorate that event, here's the smallest ever Olympic rings symbol as imaged by researchers from IBM Zurich, University of Warwick and the Royal Society of Chemistry:

It would take about 100,000 of the molecules, dubbed olympicene (image), to span the diameter of a human hair. Olympicene has been known since the 1960s, but the team has developed a new way to produce the molecule more efficiently and with less-toxic solvents than with previous techniques.

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Is it just me or does anybody else see seven and not five? Not to mention all the other partially obscured ones. The picture appears to simply be a (badly) screened-off view of a much larger array of holes. And of course they don't overlap.
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Es rrealmente
tranquilizante saber q hay gente dispuesta a compartir estos conocimientos, es traboajo de todos
dar a conocer la informaciĆ³n para percatar un poco a la sociedad de esta reslidad.
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