Spiky needle grabbing

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This is about deliberately grabbing crystolecules or crystolecular elements
in such a spiky pointy way that the bonding energy form the Van der Waals bonding force is similar or even smaller to the
equipartitioning thermal energy for a degree of freedom.

(TODO: Investigate if this is possible or not - edit: likely not)

Why would one want to do that other than experimentally demonstrating/visualizing the known and expected effects:

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