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Choose Your Bond
Posted by Weizmann Science Writer on May 30, 2011
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Two completely unrelated papers have got us thinking about chemical bonds. When we refer to chemical bonds, we generally mean covalent bonds: Atoms become “wedded,” sharing electrons, and breaking them apart takes energy. By comparison, other types of bonds are weak attractions – mere flirtations, or mild sparks between hydrogen and oxygen in passing water…
More Weizmann History
Posted by Weizmann Science Writer on November 24, 2010 Here’s another article we came across while editing material on the still-theoretical new website. Unfortunately, the article is more about the photographer than Anna Weizmann, herself. Prof. Anna Weizmann was Chaim’s younger sister, (there were a dozen brothers and sisters, all of them chemists, engineers and doctors). She was also one of the original 11…