The quantum mechanical rabbit hole goes much deeper than that, but suffice it to say that understanding the shapes of orbitals is an important part of a basic chemistry education. Doug Linebarrier ...

“As the evidence began to mount, I got really excited because I've been looking for something like this for basically my whole independent career,” says Eric J. Schelter of the University of ...

Years of research have established that the 4f orbitals of lanthanides are generally reluctant to participate in chemical reactions. Deep-seated and shielded by the outer 5s and 5p orbitals, the ...

It is surely orbitals, which underpin our interpretation of organic, inorganic and quantum chemistry. Published by World Scientific, "Orbitals: With Applications in Atomic Spectra" describes ...

Chemical reactions are ultimately nothing more than the formation and breakdown of electron bonds, which can also be described as orbitals. The so-called molecular orbital theory thus makes it ...

What Are Atomic Orbitals: Atomic orbitals a concepts derived from quantum mechanics to describe the probability of finding an electron around an atom’s nucleus. The Orbtial Wave Function is a ...

Scientists have developed a method to alter the color and brightness of rare earth element luminescence by changing their ...

"We can now detect exactly the type of a particular atom, one atom at a time, and can simultaneously measure its chemical state ... associated with particular orbitals. The model has been ...

The results were published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The behavior of the electrons in atoms is complex, forming electron orbitals that have different functions depending on ...