IEEE Spectrum on MSN1d
Rubidium Can Be More Than a Lithium Cast-Off
Lithium has been the apple of the mining industry’s eye as demand for electric vehicle batteries has skyrocketed. Now, the ...
Sciencing on MSN6d
Molecules That Can Never Exist Naturally On Earth
Space is home to a great many oddities, and even chemistry gets strange out there. In fact, there are even some molecules ...
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What Are Semiconductors, and What Are They Made Of?
Some elements in the periodic table, such as carbon, silicon, and germanium, are intrinsic semiconductors due to the number of electrons in their outermost electron shells. By comparison ...
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Why You Can’t Combine All The Elements Of The Periodic Table In A Single Compound
In simplistic terms, chemical elements bond by sharing or giving each other electrons, so their electron orbitals are in the most stable configurations. Some elements are desperate to do that and ...
Chemistry World23d
Celebrating 100 years of the Pauli exclusion principle
this approach could now account for the form of the entire periodic table. But more than that: Pauli’s exclusion principle, by prohibiting two electrons from sharing a quantum state, also forbids them ...