Scientists capture the first footage of ATOMS bonding and breaking in real time at a scale half-a-million-times smaller than the width of a human hair

UK Daily Mail ^ | January 21, 2020 | Jonathan Chadwick

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

We speak English here. Please restate comment so that those of us who barely passed Physics can understand. /sarc

[Boiler Plate]

Ha!

[SuperLuminal]

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The joy of being 86 and being stuck on the music of the 60’s, 70’s, & 80’s...

[cloudmountain]

I don’t trust atoms.
They make up everything.

Two-thirds of a PUN = P.U.!

[Celtic Conservative]

😁👍

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[Celtic Conservative]

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[Celtic Conservative]

Thanks, I'll be here all week. Try the cheesecake.😜

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[Reynoldo]

Almost brings tears to my eyes.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

Nice pair of valences.

Kate and Anna McGarrigle: NaCl (1984)

Just a little atom of chlorine, Valence minus one,
Swimming through the sea, Diggin' the scene, just havin' fun,
She's not worried about the shape or size of her outside shell, It's fun to ionize,
Just a little atom of C-L With an unfilled shell.
Somewhere in that sea, Lurks handsome sodium.
With enough electrons on his outside shell, Plus that extra one.
"Somewhere in this deep blue sea There's a negative for my extra energy,
Yes, somewhere in this foam, My positive will find a home."
Then unsuspecting chlorine, Felt a magnetic pull,
She looked down and her outside shell was full,
Sodium cried, "What a gas! Be my bride,
And I'll change your name from chlorine to chloride."
Now the sea evaporates to make the clouds for the rain and snow,
Leaving her chemical compounds in the absence of H2O.
But the crystals that wash upon the shore are happy ones, So if you never thought before . . .
Think of the love that you eat, When you salt your meat.

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

Two-thirds of a PUN = P.U.!

I will remember that.

[cloudmountain]

:o)

[catnipman]

“No weird behavior such as electron orbital shells, quantum shifts in orbitals, probabilistic nature of particles, heisenberg, etc.”

they’re not looking INSIDE of the atom and its subatomic structure; their resolution isn’t fine enough to do that ... they’ve just barely managed to see an atom as a blob, which of course is still a VERY impressive feat, considering that just a little over 100 years ago most physicists didn’t believe in the existence of atoms or molecules ...

[BunnySlippers]

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[HandyDandy]

Graphene is a zero-gap semiconductor, because its conduction and valence bands meet at the Dirac points. The Dirac points are six locations in momentum space, on the edge of the Brillouin zone, divided into two non-equivalent sets of three points. The two sets are labeled K and K'. The sets give graphene a valley degeneracy of gv = 2. By contrast, for traditional semiconductors the primary point of interest is generally Γ, where momentum is zero. Four electronic properties separate it from other condensed matter systems.

[zeugma]

Isn't that an invasion of privacy?.....................

You win the internet for the day. Congratulations!

[SunkenCiv]

I didn't check, I hope I'm in before the Celeron jokes. Thanks BenLurkin.

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[dhs12345]

They need another 100x magnification. It is interesting the boundary formed by the electron shells. There is a void of “no matter” and then matter. Anyway, it looks like Bohrs model.

[dhs12345]

Interesting too that it takes a finite amount of time for the reaction to happen. There is a time component to the reaction and even an intermediate state. I would be curious to see what happens during the tweener state when the molecule is randomly chaotic and in a different energy state and then finally settles in on the final configuration. This is something that is rarely discussed in Chemistry and the simple algebraic equations only show before and after. Also, is the molecule vulnerable in this transitional state? And does it follow schrodinger model for final state.