Paula Rossi
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#paintwithwords #iamwriting #chemistry fragments Elements persist. Lavoisier perishes. Mailme6/Pixabay
#chemsky #chemistry #iteachchem Was the ancient alchemist a master of the black arts?
The Alchemists
One foot in magic, the other finding solid ground.
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#chemsky #chemistry #iteachchemistry Even Mother Nature's pockets are only so deep.
Itinerary
And the cost of doing business in Atom City
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#chemsky #chemistry #iteachchemistry Mother Nature makes the rules here. Once within the walls of the city, we will be entirely at her mercy.
Atom City
What we know and what we want to know.
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#chemsky #chemistry 🧪 Move over C60, there’s a new icosahedron in town. And B80 is as just as symmetrical as you are.
Boron equivalent of buckminsterfullerene finally observed after decades of research
Careful control of cluster cooling conditions enables resolution of long-sought photoelectron spectrum, but DFT confirmation remains elusive
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#paintwithwords #iamwriting #chemistry fragments The form crumbles. Residue remains. Pete Linforth/Pixabay
Imagine the periodic table as a map of an ancient metropolis, a peculiar land inhabited by strange and exotic creatures. We’ll call it… Atom City.
Strangers in A Strange Land
Come on in!
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#iamreading #Booksky #ecology From Charles Darwin, On the Origin of the Species In so far as climate chiefly acts in reducing food, it brings on the most severe struggle between the individuals … which subsist on the same kind of food.’
#iamwriting #booksky A tiny story about a child and her mother. My parents had been out for the evening. I woke up when they came home. I couldn’t have been more than three years old because I was still sharing a bedroom with my older brother and the twins, one year younger than me.
#paintwithwords #iamwriting #chemistry fragments Oxygen vanishes into the ethiops. eluxirphoto/Pixabay
#chemsky #chemistry #iteachchemistry Anxious to share their 60 carbon cage with the rest of the world, the principals struggled to devise a name that would be considered ‘proper’. They failed.
Architecture Dominates
The Naming Controversy
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Flatlander no more — the periodic table reveals its third dimension. Electronic geometry mirrors elemental identity. 🧪
Superatoms offer new dimension to materials chemistry palette
Could atomically precise nanoclusters mimic the chemistry of particular atoms without their toxic or cost drawbacks? James Mitchell Crow reports on the emerging third dimension of the periodic table
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#CHEMSKY #CHEMISTRY #ITEACHCHEMISTRY The Ghost Becomes a Molecule. In 1990, physicists Donald Huffman and Wolfgang Krätschmer produced gram-sized quantities of C60. Plenty for structural determinations, which vindicated Curl, Kroto and Smalley.
The ancient Greeks puzzled over how the universe was quilted together – The debate continues today. #chemistry #chemsky #iamwriting
Aristotle v. the Atomists
Image by Javiermirapeidro for Pixabay
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#paintwithwords #iamwriting #chemistry fragments To master danger is advantage. yeison bueno / pixbay
#CHEMSKY #CHEMISTRY The discovery of buckminsterfullerene was not a fait accompli once Smalley built a 60 carbon cage out of cardboard. The next five years were dominated by disputes and harsh criticism of the discoverers.
#chemsky #chemistry #iteachchemistry Do you remember the movie 'Slum Dog Millionaire'? Here's another one of those unusual constellations of events.
Reading this article, I felt like a fly on the wall, watching Humphrey Davy interact with other scientists in his day. It seems humility was not exactly his cup of tea. 🧪
Humphry Davy: a study in narcissism?
Abstract. Drawing on Jan Golinski's analysis of Humphry Davy's adoption of a variety of social roles, this paper seeks to ground Davy's social interactions
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#chemsky #chemistry #ecology So often, the future destroys the past. But not this time.
Paula Rossi (@periodicmusings)
Sanctuary for an ancient species. Cycads shared this black orb with the dinosaurs, surviving that mass extinction and the four others that followed. By changing very little. While the world chang...
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#iamwriting #booksky #chemsky The notion that creation is quilted together from fundamental pieces of matter is one that surfaced with the dawn of human intellect. Kohji Asakawa/ Pixabay
#chemsky #chemistry #iteachchemistry Meet Bruce Hauman. Not for him was toiling away in an uninspiring job just to pay the mortgage. And he did something about it. He designed, constructed and dwelt within his own 209 square foot geodome in the mid-2000s.
Rig Some Light
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