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Scientists just overturned a 100-year-old rule of chemistry, and the results are “impossible”

Chemists at UCLA are showing that some of organic chemistry’s most famous “rules” aren’t as unbreakable as once thought. By ...

Study reveals why light-driven chemical reactions often lose energy before bond-breaking

Florida State University researchers have discovered a pathway within a certain type of molecule that limits chemical ...

A year after undermining Bredt's rule, scientists make cage-shaped, double-bonded molecules that defy expectations

Organic chemistry is packed with rules about structure and reactivity, especially when it comes to making and breaking ...
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A strange in-between state of matter is finally observed

When materials become just one atom thick, melting no longer follows the familiar rules. Instead of jumping straight from ...
Nature

Internal Stresses caused by Disorder in Vitreous Materials

IT is now generally recognized that one of the main characteristics of a vitreous material is that its atomic structure has no long-range order 1. This means that the individual interatomic bonds will ...

Scientists Find a Hidden State Inside Liquid Metal That Shouldn’t Exist

Scientists studying molten metals have uncovered a surprising truth: even in a liquid state, some atoms do not move at all. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Motionless atoms can trap liquid metal in a strange ...