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Seen through the lens of light-diffracting glasses, students at the annual Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics program at the U.S. Naval Academy participate in the atomic fingerprinting workshop at Annapolis, Md., June 15, 2011. The workshop teaches the students to make waves, diffract light and fingerprint atoms by color using spectroscopy.

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Seen through the lens of light-diffracting glasses, students at the annual Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics program at the U.S. Naval Academy participate in the atomic fingerprinting workshop at Annapolis, Md., June 15, 2011. The workshop teaches the students to make waves, diffract light and fingerprint atoms by color using spectroscopy.

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