A University at Buffalo study provides new insights about core electrons, including their role in the B1-B2 transition that sees a compound's atomic crystal structure rearrange from an octahedral ...

A dot and cross diagram for sodium chloride suggests that it is made up of pairs of sodium and chloride ions. It is not. A 3D construction model shows how the ions are arranged in a lattice structure.

IN an earlier communication 1 we stated that the X-ray powder diffraction pattern of solid deuterium chloride recorded at 118.5° K and the corresponding neutron powder diffraction pattern recorded at ...

Chuck Wight, a chemistry professor at the University of Utah, provides the following explanation: A typical water-softening system removes calcium and magnesium ions from hard water and replaces them ...

You probably learned in high school chemistry class that core electrons don’t participate in chemical bonding. They’re thought to be too deep inside an atom and close to the nucleus to meaningfully ...