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As part of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency project, Yuan-Yu Jau is working on an atomic clock at Sandia National Laboratories that will use the element cesium, which has a natural resonance frequency of 9,192,631,770 hertz.

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Craig Fritz, Sandia National Laboratories

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