How to Count Carbon Atoms in Organic Chemistry
Organic chemistry is the science of molecules that are built around carbon atoms: natural gas, petroleum, plastics, alcohols and many other industrial chemicals. This branch of science has its own specialized vocabulary, including a method for ... [... more]
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Have Atoms, Will Travel
When Theodore Maiman fired a burst of brilliant light from a synthetic ruby rod in 1960, his colleagues at Hughes Laboratory thought his optic laser was an interesting physics experiment that might someday have an application in communications. ... [... more]
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Sharpshooter:
What do you do with the world's biggest, highest-intensity laser system? Well, for starters, you could blast the nuclei of hydrogen atoms and transform their mass into energy in a reaction that rivals the force and temperature of an exploding ... [... more]
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Cells (and Germs)
Cells are tiny living things that make up all organisms. They are made up of millions of molecules and even more atoms. Everything living is made up of cells. There are many different kinds of cells. They all fall inside two categories: animal ... [... more]
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How to write atoms
Atoms are the smallest particles of an element that have all the same chemical properties of that element. The mass of a single atom is extremely small, less than 10^-21 g The center of an atom contains a small nucleus. A nucleus contains both ... [... more]
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The Magic Furnace: The Search for the Origins of Atoms
 Captivating, informative, demanding, but highly readable: The title is an allusion to the dream of the alchemists of old who sought a magic kiln in which to transform base metals into gold. That dream remained intact until the discovery in the twentieth [... more]
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Energy Levels in Atoms and Molecules
An understanding of energy levels in atoms and molecules is an essential foundation for the study of physical chemistry. This book provides the reader with a clear and accessible introduction to electronic structure and quantitized energy levels. It [... more]
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Atoms and Molecules: With Puzzles, Projects, and Problems
Atoms and molecules reveals the inner workings of the atom and includes the background to some historic discoveries and inventions, such as the atom bomb. It also looks at the latest scientific developments, including atomic art and atom's role in the [... more]
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Science of Candy: Science of Sugar
The white stuff we know as sugar is sucrose, a molecule composed of 12 atoms of carbon, 22 atoms of hydrogen, and 11 atoms of oxygen (C12H22O11). Like all compounds made from these three elements, sugar is a carbohydrate. It’s found naturally in ... [... more]
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Atoms and Molecules in Strong External Fields
White Dwarfs for Physicists; D. Koester. Magnetic White Dwarfs; Observations in Cosmic Laboratories; S. Jordan. Hydrogen in Strong Electric and Magnetic Fields and Its Application to Magnetic White Dwarfs; S. Friedrich, et al. Helium Data for Strong [... more]
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Physics of Atoms and Ions
Intended for advanced students of physics, chemistry, and related disciplines, this text treats the quantum theory of atoms and ions within the framework of self-consistent fields. It treats the structure and spectra of atoms and ions, their behavior in [... more]
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Information On Atoms
The dots are atoms of silicon. With its surrounding structure, each bit of data occupies 20 atoms. The world's densest memory chip has been created by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison). It stores bits of data as ... [... more]
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