All Atoms and bonds articles – Page 55
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ResearchChemistry gets strange at water’s surface
Theoretical study suggests that ions with the same charge might actually become attracted to each other at an interface
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PodcastChemistry World podcast - June 2014
We speak to Tom Brown, the 2014 Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the Year, and find out why cells spend so much time doing nothing
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ResearchCluster structure promises acid advance
After a 40-year wait, new information on how water clusters around protons stands to benefit our understanding of acids.
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PodcastAmmonium dichromate
Brian Clegg reminisces about indoor fireworks and Vesuvian fire with this week’s compound: ammonium dichromate
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ResearchUnusual H-bond patterns revealed in single molecule image
Hydrogen atoms in a molecule of cobalt phthalocyanine appear to be ‘shared’ between multiple centres
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ResearchMechanism study seeks to clear ‘crystalline flask’ cloud
Could x-ray crystallography tracking of palladium-mediated aromatic bromination herald a flood of similar research?
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ResearchBlurred bonds rationalised by heavy atom tunnelling
Computational study raises philosophical questions about what chemists mean by molecular structure
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ResearchElemental discoveries at the cellular level
The concentrations of vital chemical elements in cancer cells has been mapped using a dual technique
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CareersChemistry in close-up
Nina Notman talks to IBM’s atomic manipulation group, and the scientists who snapped the first molecular mug shots
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FeatureWhat is a bond?
There’s more to bonding than covalent, ionic and the lines we draw between atoms on paper. Philip Ball takes on the expanding list of chemical connections
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FeatureWhat can U do?
Actinide chemistry is reaching beyond nuclear and revealing surprising behaviour, finds Andy Extance
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OpinionWe choose to go to the muon
Subatomic sorties have uncovered strange new species, says Philip Ball. Should we give these alien atoms a place at the table?
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FeatureOrdering the elements
From the law of octaves to the periodic table as we know it, Mike Sutton traces how chemists put their house in order