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Two atoms have been captured on film forming a bond, for the first time ever.
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Subject: Two atoms have been captured on film forming a bond, for the first time ever. Sat Jan 18, 2020 6:28 pm
Two atoms have been captured on film forming a bond, for the first time ever.
What we will see here is that pair of rhenium atoms, inside the nanotube, already bonded together to form a dirhenium molecule. They come to the edge of the nanotube and escape out of a crack in its structure. They then roll down the side of the nanotube and into the space between it and another nanotube. All the while, they bond and unbond.
The authors say we can tell whether it is a single, double, or quadruple bond by its length, and each of those states happens in the video. We also see times when the two atoms are not bonded at all.
You can see them in various stages of closeness and also apart. Two atoms bonding and unbonding, and you’re one of the first people on earth ever to actually witness that.
Two atoms have been captured on film forming a bond, for the first time ever.
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