Not exact matches
An ominous bearish
Triple Top has
formed in Dow / T -
Bond ratio.
At these edge sites, which are characterized by double rather than
triple bonds, moly sulfide was much more effective at
forming H2.
Unlike silicon, nitrogen normally
forms a
triple bond.
Like nitrogen, phosphorus can
form a
triple bond — but it does so much less readily than its smaller sibling, nitrogen.
Less energy is needed to break these
bonds, and once they are broken, atoms of nitrogen are free to
form triple bonds with each other.
One
triple bond releases much more energy when it
forms than is needed to break the three single
bonds that bind the nitrogen in the starting compound.
«Carbon easily
forms triple bonds, nitrogen easily
forms triple bonds,» says Holger Braunschweig of the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg in Germany, who led the team of researchers that made the compound.
It turns out that to coax boron atoms to
form triple bonds at room temperature, Braunschweig and colleagues had to make sure all the spaces where it could hold outer electrons were occupied.
Yet most living things can't do any chemistry with the atmospheric
form, two nitrogen atoms fiercely
triple -
bonded to each other.
Boron joins carbon and nitrogen as one of the few elements in the periodic table known to
form stable compounds featuring
triple bonds.