Atomic orbitals exist, sort of. The lobes, spheres, and donuts familiar to many chemists are like a map of where you might find electrons around a nucleus. The geometric patterns and motifs that ...

Carboxylic acid dianions (fumarate, maleate and succinate) play a role in coordination chemistry and to some extent also in the biochemistry of body cells. A team has now analyzed their electronic ...

Explore the fascinating world of atoms in this video, which delves into their fundamental components: protons, neutrons, and ...

So bismuth has partially filled orbitals and should behave as a paramagnet. However, its position in row six of the periodic table means bismuth also possesses some unusual heavy-atom properties.

As the orbitals fill up, electrons are forced to pair, and this determines the elements' magnetic properties. Elements with more unpaired electrons are paramagnetic, and those with more paired ...