Inorganic chemistry – Page 14
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Oak Ridge at 75
As Oak Ridge National Laboratory celebrates its 75th anniversary, Kit Chapman visits the birthplace of the atomic age
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Research
2D gallium stripped from molten metal
Gallenene is the first atomically thin material made by exfoliating a liquid metal
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Germanium analogue of cyclobutadiene isolated
Polar Jahn–Teller distortion stabilises unusual molecule
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Ice cubes melt to make single atom metals
Atomically dispersed metals made by ultra-slow reagent
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Alternative pathway to phosphorus compounds skips white phosphorus
Intermediate opens way to making pesticides and flame retardants with novel silicon–phosphorus anion
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Uranium at heart of rare hydrogen cyanide complex
Turquoise powder is only second example of a hydrogen cyanide complex of a uranium compound
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Tech red unmasked
An unusual oxide of radioactive technetium reveals its secrets after 50 years
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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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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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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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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
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Bright future for trace water analysis
MOF-based material has detection limit as low as traditional Karl Fischer titration
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Immense oganesson projected to have no electron shells
Theory predicts that element 118 would be surrounded by a smear of electrons
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Chemists reinvent the wheel
Symmetrical gold and niobium cluster with unusually short Nb–Nb bond