#Scientists discover three-dimensional structure in smaller water droplet

“#Scientists discover three-dimensional structure in smaller water droplet” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Water and its interactions with other substances are essential to human life. However, understanding the structure of liquid water and its hydrogen-bonding networks has been a challenge. According to previous studies, all oxygen atoms in water trimers, tetramers, and pentamers with cyclic minimum-energy…

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#Radioactive cloud over Europe had civilian background

“#Radioactive cloud over Europe had civilian background” The scientists carried out the isotope measurements using such air filters. Credit: Dorian Zok/LUH A mysterious cloud containing radioactive ruthenium-106, which moved across Europe in autumn 2017, is still bothering Europe’s radiation protection entities. Although the activity concentrations were innocuous, they reached up to 100 times the levels…

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#Novel noncovalent bond blocks repulsive odor of isocyanides

“#Novel noncovalent bond blocks repulsive odor of isocyanides” The structure of the associates of iodopentafluorobenzene with mesityl isocyanide, established by X-ray diffraction at the Research Park of St. Petersburg State University. Credit: SPbU Isocyanides are an important class of organic compounds owing to a wide range of chemical transformations they can undergo. These molecules are…

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