Bruxelles Brussels Atomium Belgium Belgian

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Built for the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (Expo '58), the 103-metre (335-foot) tall Atomium monument represents a unit cell of an iron crystal (body-centred cubic), magnified 165 billion times, with vertical body diagonal, with tubes along the 12 edges of the cube and from all 8 vertices to the centre.

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Size: 3543px × 5390px
Location: Brussel
Photo credit: © Peter Horree / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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