Friday, May 2, 2014

Further Evidence of Element 117

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Physical Review Letters just published a paper in which an international group in Germany claimed to have repeated the 2010 results of the...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Discovery of a Tetraquark

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Interesting discovery coming out of CERN here (CERN's press release here ). The scientists claim they discovered a four-quark partic...
Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Is Spin a Relativistic Effect? Levy-Leblond and First Order Wave Equations

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One of the earliest concepts we cover in atomic structure is the concept of electron spin. We are taught to think of the electron's spi...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

Discovery of Oxygen

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This tweet has been making the rounds today. RT @greatbritain : UK discovered more elements in periodic table than any other country pic.twi...
Monday, March 24, 2014

Surprising Article about Californium Chemistry

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I just saw an interesting article from the RSC at Chemistry World based on this article in Nature Chemistry about the chemistry of calif...
Sunday, March 9, 2014

Astatine: Halogen or Metal? Part 3: Electronic Structure Calculations

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For "Part 1: Background" click here . For "Part 2: Introduction to Relativistic Quantum Chemistry" click here . In th...
Friday, February 28, 2014

Astatine: Halogen or Metal? Part 2: Introduction to Relativistic Quantum Chemistry

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Click here for part 1, "Astatine: Halogen or Metal? Part 1: Background." Note to readers: To date I have attempted to keep my p...