In 1931, Harvey Elliott White developed a device that traced out the shapes of electron clouds by approximating solutions to ...

Optical microscopes can help us see the microscopic world, but to use them to examine individual atoms is like measuring an ant with a measuring tape. An atom is way too smaller as compared to the ...

A research team has discovered clusters of aluminum atoms that have chemical properties similar to single atoms of metallic and nonmetallic elements when they react with iodine. The discovery opens ...

Students learn to draw electron dot diagrams for atoms and Lewis structures for molecules. Bonding, Part II: Students learn to draw electron dot diagrams for atoms and Lewis structures for molecules.

You might think of chemistry only in the context of lab tests, food additives or dangerous substances, but the field of chemistry involves everything around us. "Everything you hear, see, smell, taste ...

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At the far end of the periodic table is a realm where nothing is quite as it should be. The elements here, starting at atomic number 104 (rutherfordium), have never been found in nature. In fact, they ...