Penn State researchers have uncovered a surprising twist in a foundational chemical reaction known as oxidative addition. Typically believed to involve transition metals donating electrons to organic ...

You can check to see where an electron is, but each time you do, it will show up in a different position, not because it’s moving but because of the superposition of states.

A valence electron in titanium oxide has been imaged at a resolution of 0.2 Angstroms using synchrotron X-ray diffraction and a new Fourier synthesis method that can determine the orbital states ...

We know magnetism as a fundamental force of nature that plays a crucial role in both the natural world and modern technology. It governs the behavior of materials at the atomic level and is essential ...

Speeding up chemical reactions is key to improving industrial processes or mitigating unwanted or harmful waste. Realizing ...

Transition metals and complex chemistry of early actinide elements Date: March 15, 2018 Source: DOE/Argonne National Laboratory Summary: Chemists have recently explored protactinium's multiple ...

In the case of p, the m value is -1, 0 and 1. So we can have up to 3 orbitals on the xyz axes of a Cartesian system. Moving on up to n = 3 puts us at the d sub-shell and gives us up to 5 orbitals.

And the Electron’s capacity is limited, only capable of getting between 330 and 500 pounds to lower Earth orbit. For comparison, the Falcon 9 can get around 50,000 pounds to a similar orbit.

For decades, physicists have studied the way an electron ought to bind to a proton, the simplest atomic system. The fascinating patterns of hydrogen orbitals that form at different energy levels ...

The heavy element lawrencium is available in only tiny quantities. Measurement of one of its atomic properties was thus an experimental challenge, but indispensably validates theoretical models of ...