Fluorine gas (F 2), which has been called chemistry’s hellcat, is so reactive that chemists have long assumed it does not occur in nature. Now researchers in Munich have evidence that the gas exists ...

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Researchers have developed a new theoretical model explaining one way to make black silicon. The new etching model precisely explains how fluorine gas breaks certain bonds in the silicon more often ...

I was looking at the periodic table of the elements the other day, as one does, when my eye fell upon the right-hand side of the chart. Right next to the noble gases at the extreme edge of the table ...

How short is one second? The duration of a second can be defined as one 86,400 th of a 24-hour day. A bullet train traveling at 300 km per hour can cover a distance of 83 meters in one second. On ...

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