The scientists began by building a database of 1,500 odor - producing molecules, cataloging 1,664 different traits — their size, the strength of
the chemical bonds between their atoms, and so on.
Physicists have long known that
chemical bonds between atoms are flexible — like springs connecting spheres.
Not exact matches
Analysis of phase - change materials showed that they work because of a particular kind of
chemical bonding, called resonant
bonding — a type of
bond in which electrons flip back and forth
between several adjacent
atoms.
The
chemical feature that enables this suppression is a
bond between two oxygen
atoms — an unstable peroxide bridge that releases a tiny barrage in the form of free radicals (unpaired electrons) that can fracture parasite proteins the way an F5 twister tears apart barns.
The most detailed images yet made of the
chemical bonds in a molecule show what large - scale models had long assumed: the more electrons that two
atoms share, the shorter the
bond between them.
Such interactions are dependent on
chemical bonds between hydrogen
atoms.
Using the same technique, a few years later they succeeded in distinguishing different types of
chemical bond between carbon
atoms in a hydrocarbon molecule.
«Nature of the
chemical bond between metal atoms and oxide surfaces: new evidence from spin density studies of K atoms on alkaline earth oxides» Journal of the American Chemical Society 2005, 127, 16935
chemical bond between metal
atoms and oxide surfaces: new evidence from spin density studies of K
atoms on alkaline earth oxides» Journal of the American
Chemical Society 2005, 127, 16935
Chemical Society 2005, 127, 16935 - 16944.
chemical bonds Attractive forces
between atoms that are strong enough to make the linked elements function as a single unit.