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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 ...

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.

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If you think of a single atom as a grain of sand, then a wavelength of visible light—which is a thousand times larger than ...

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 ...

Growing kids tend to repeat all sorts of colorful language heard while at school, yet there's one particular C-word that causes some parents to feel a special type of dread. Chemistry. A new teaching ...

The 3 winners have created metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs. MOFs can trap moisture from desert air to get water, or ...

The 3 Chemistry Nobel laureates have been honoured for creating Metal-Organic Frameworks, whose use cases have seen ...

Rendition of two optical traps tossing around individual atoms, which is the first time such a feat has been accomplished. (Credit: Jaewook Ahn, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) An ...

A trio of scientists have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing “metal-organic frameworks,” a form of molecular architecture that packs vast amounts of space into tiny ...