His predictions were subsequently completely verified by the discovery of the elements scandium (eka-boron), gallium ... with an interesting theory of atomic structure that was first put forward ...

This unique formation of electrons is called the Wigner crystal (also called electron ice). This crystal holds importance in ...

The chemical element boron makes diamonds go blue when it finds its way inside ... This distortion changes the way light interacts with the atomic structure of the diamond as it passes through the ...

In episode six of this eight-part series on atomic structure and the periodic table ... down – or period 2 – is lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine and neon and ...

Tourmaline is a boron silicate mineral that includes elements ... This interaction between light and the gemstone’s atomic ...

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) will be relying on tungsten as its plasma-facing material, but a ...

To explain these laws of combination, Dalton introduced the atomic theory into chemistry ... the properties of an element that would resemble boron, another that would be analogous to aluminium ...

Graphene is placed on top of boron nitride so that graphene’s electrons can ‘feel’ individual boron and nitrogen atoms. Moving along this atomic ‘washboard’, electrons rearrange themselves once again ...

The atomic defects in hBN can degrade ... the defects are carbon atoms sitting in places where boron atoms should be in the hBN crystal structure. "Understanding and controlling the defects ...