This video explores the fascinating reasons behind the physical properties of elements. It answers questions about why mercury is a liquid at room temperature, why gold has its distinctive yellow ...

Abstract: A graphene-oxide-semiconductor (GOS) planar-type electron source is coated with a hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) film to improve its oxidation resistance. The h-BN film is selected as a ...

Rich and Suter diagrams are a very useful tool to explain the electron configurations of all transition elements, and in particular, the s 1 and s 0 configurations of the elements Cr, Cu, Nb, Mo, Ru, ...

Ammonia (NH₃) is an indispensable chemical in modern industry, serving as a core feedstock for fertilizers, pharmaceuticals, and numerous industrial ...

Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...

Oxygen is the second most abundant element in Earth's atmosphere. Although critical for aerobic respiration, it also poses significant dangers to life. The reduction of molecular oxygen to water by ...

On Christmas Day 2021, alongside other astronomers, I watched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launch from French Guiana and begin its month-long journey to its destination, 1.5 million ...

Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was ...

Copper atoms trapped in MXene nanochannels remove 94.9% of bisphenol A in 5 minutes by concentrating reactants and lowering ...

A recent study saw the Thermo Scientific™ K-Alpha™ X-ray Photoelectron Spectrometer (XPS) System employed in an investigation ...