Rubies and emeralds get their colours from a common metal
Both rubies and emeralds are minerals, which is a type of rock with a consistent chemical composition and a highly ordered ...
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20 Years of Discovery: How Has the Periodic Table Changed Over Time?
The periodic table organizes chemical elements based on atomic weight, electron configurations, and chemical properties, ...
Why are rubies red and emeralds green? Their colors come from the same metal in their atomic structure
Rubies and emeralds have the colors they do because, like many substances, they absorb some colors of light. Most visible light, like sunlight, is composed of all the colors of the rainbow: red, ...
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Tales of technetium
The story of the last element to be discovered out of the first 92 catalogued in the periodic table is told by Eric ... Traces of Tc in rocks contradict the common textbook statement that it ...
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2 obscure clean energy metals are caught in the crosshairs of the US-China trade war
After a Chinese export ban, can America get gallium and germanium from Canada — or will tariffs get in the way?
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The effects of plasma density structure on the propagation of magnetosonic waves: 1-D particle-in-cell simulations
Magnetosonic (MS) waves, i.e., ion Bernstein mode waves, are one of the common plasma waves in the Earth’s magnetosphere, which are important for regulating charged particle dynamics. How MS waves ...
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Interactions Between Nucleosomes: From Atomistic Simulation to Polymer Model
The organization of genomes in space and time dimension plays an important role in gene expression and regulation. Chromatin folding occurs in a dynamic, structured way that is subject to biophysical ...