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Berkeley Lab discovers first organometallic molecule with Berkelium
Researchers named the compound “berkelocene” because it is comparable to the compound “uranocene,” a uranium-containing ...
University at Buffalo6d
UB, Berkeley Lab scientists discover new heavy-metal molecule ‘berkelocene’
The pioneering nuclear chemist Glenn Seaborg discovered berkelium at Berkeley Lab in 1949. It was one of many achievements ...
A Radioactive Molecule That Shouldn’t Exist – But Scientists Made It Happen
A breakthrough in heavy-element chemistry shatters long-held assumptions about transuranium elements. Researchers have ...
Only a Few Grams of This Element Exist—and Scientists Have Used It to Break the Rules of the Periodic Table
More than 75 years after its initial discovery, scientists have created an organometallic molecule containing the ...
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US’ new radioactive molecule discovery challenges periodic table post uranium
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have synthesized ...
Chemistry World25d
Ancient Vesuvius victim’s brain contains first natural organic glass ever seen
Normally, when a liquid cools, its molecules arrange into an ordered crystalline structure. But if cooling occurs very rapidly, molecular motion is stopped before crystallisation can take place and an ...