I posted a photo of a itty bitty molecule that is making the news these days ... the photo, not the molecule ... but I didn't have much to say about it except that it was cool. Ethan Siegel has picked up the thread and explains what it is we are looking at.
I myself have used the little needle thingie in research, but the tip of the one I used was more like an actual needle made of a zillion metal molecules so we could only image things like primate teeth or cut marks on bones. This one is a little different...
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Some months ago I made a (seemingly idle) threat to follow up my basic concepts posts on polar and non-po
As promised at the end of my post on polar and non-polar molecules, here's a basic concepts post on
What list of basic concepts would be complete without a primer on polar and non-polar molecules?
A mysterious gap in posting? Must be finals time! As of now I'm done. We'll see how they went. One of them went well for sure, the other sort of depends. My own students are having their own exams as well, and I've got my fingers crossed for them.