All Atoms and bonds articles – Page 36
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Taking the heat off ice under pressure
New understanding of how pressure can cause ice to melt independent of heat
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Lightning strikes cause nuclear reactions in the atmosphere
Thunderstorms are a previously unrecognised natural source of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen isotopes
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Chernobyl disaster mystery solved
A nuclear explosion – not high pressure steam – started the chain reaction of events that destroyed the reactor
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Experiments confirm nickel isotope's ‘doubly magic’ status
Analysis of copper-79 reveal the secrets of its magic neighbour
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Quantum dots and a bright future
Tune in to the amazing semiconductors giving colour to your TV
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What’s left isn’t always right in total synthesis
Scientists turn detective to solve a decade-old stereochemical enigma
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Tagging drugs with heavy hydrogen made as easy as flicking a light switch
Photoredox reaction simplifies metabolism studies by swapping hydrogen for deuterium or tritium
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Phase to phase
Chemists are finding fascinating phase-change phenomena, discovers Rachel Brazil
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Torn crystal reveals interlayer van der Waals forces
Sticking force between layers of atomically thin material measured for the first time
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Spaces can be useful
Truly functional MOFs are on the horizon but Susumu Kitagawa saw their potential when they were weak and idle
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Inorganic polystyrene gives old material a new backbone
New catalytic route opens the door to polymers made from boron and nitrogen
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Material containing perfectly planar octacoordinate titanium predicted
Titanium falls flat in an eight-membered boron ring
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Hinshelwood’s 1956 chemistry Nobel prize medal to be auctioned
Medal is believed to be one of just eight ever sold
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Huge molecular fragment quantum tunnels in everyday lab reaction
First example of a whole trifluoromethyl group sneaking through an energy barrier
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Electro-shock treatment switches MOF on to gas separation
Electric field stops molecular wriggling and boosts natural gas separation in porous crystal
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First boron–tellurium double bond captured
Unusual molecule features shortest boron bond to one of the rarest metals on Earth
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Heavy elements forged by cataclysmic cosmic collision
First sighting of two neutron stars merging reveals how heavy elements are synthesised