The idea of the atom as the building block of matter has developed over time. What was thought of as a single particle about 1 × 10‾¹º m across is now known to be a collection of smaller particles.
Researchers with the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have ...
Book Review: The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe by Theodore Gray
A Popular Science columnist has transformed the prosaic periodic table into a drop-dead gorgeous coffee-table book. Each of the first 100 elements gets a stunning spread with a brief bio, including ...
Yuanyuan Wang and Wenlei Zhu's group at Nanjing University, China, and Yuehe Lin at Washington State University, USA, ...
GALLIUM IS an unusual element. It is a light, silvery metal, similar to aluminium. But unlike aluminium, if you hit it with a hammer it shatters like glass. It melts at about 30°C—in your hand, or ...
The difference lies in the structure of the atom's nucleus ... This stability seems partly connected to the mass of the atom, with heavier elements proving less stable. But in the 1940s and '50s, ...
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