Kanji characters

Not only can individual atoms be seen, but scientists now have the ability to arrange them into patterns and simple devices. The atoms shown here have been arranged to form the Japanese kanji characters for atom. 

I. Otsuki, Bussitsu no Henka (Matter and Change), Hyoronsha, Tokyo, 1973, (ISBN/ASIN 4566020045). This demonstration is particularly notable in that the functional battery produced from Japanese one yen (aluminium) and ten yen (copper) coins has the cathode and anode identified by the kanji characters for one (-) and ten (+). 

The atomic theory has 200 years of experimental evidence to support it, including recent images, such as this one, of atoms themselves. This image shows the Kanji characters for "atom" written with individual iron atoms on top of a copper surface. 

A Japanese standard for defining integer coding of the Kanji characters is available. 

Figure 6. A screen dump from a chemical drawing application running on a Fujitsu FMR-70 under the kanji version of Microsoft Windows specially adapted for the Fujitsu machine and the Japanese language. The chemical structure diagrams have been annotated with kanji, katakana and hiragana characters, together with roman text and arabic numerals...

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