Iron Minerals’ Hidden Chemistry Explains How Soils Trap Carbon

From mixed charges to chemical bonding, Professor Ludmilla Aristilde found that iron uses multiple strategies to lock carbon ...
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Scientists Develop Sunlight Method to Break Tough Carbon–Fluorine Bonds

Fluorinated organic molecules are widely used across pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, polymers, and industrial processes due ...
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Researchers create first solid with Be–Be bond

For the first time, researchers have created a solid compound containing a beryllium-beryllium bond (Science 2023, DOI: 10.1126/science.adh4419). The compound is diberyllocene, in which each beryllium ...
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Where the hydrogen bond ends and the covalent bond begins

The latest short science news items from C&EN. Open an introductory chemistry textbook. What is a covalent bond? A covalent bond occurs when atoms share electrons in a molecule. What is a hydrogen ...