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Author:  Satis [ Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:11 am ]
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This is pretty cool... some physicists from the Ukraine managed to take images of the electron cloud around a carbon atom. It matches quantum mechanical predictions, of course, but it's still pretty freakin' hawt.

Image

http://insidescience.org/research/first ... s_of_atoms
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The pictures, soon to be published in the journal Physical Review B, show the detailed images of a single carbon atom's electron cloud, taken by Ukrainian researchers at the Kharkov Institute for Physics and Technology in Kharkov, Ukraine.
Author:  derf [ Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:23 am ]
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fascinating yet so beyond me. :D

Thanks but ill stick to my piety :wink:
Author:  Satis [ Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:33 am ]
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really? I think electron clouds are covered in high school chemistry. :roll:
Author:  Peltz [ Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:38 am ]
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High schools are overrated.
Author:  Satis [ Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:44 am ]
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heh...considering how poorly they're rated in the US, that's pretty sad.
Author:  J [ Tue Sep 15, 2009 10:10 am ]
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Cool, let's start talking about orbitals 8-)
Author:  Satis [ Tue Sep 15, 2009 12:15 pm ]
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I used to know that stuff, back in high school. I don't even remember the order of how many electron pairs per shell any more. I know it starts at 2, then....6? I can't recall. I do remember some of the neat stuff like hydrogen bonding.
Author:  Peltz [ Tue Sep 15, 2009 2:03 pm ]
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O'cram can prolly bring you up to date on the "bonding" :D
Author:  Rinox [ Wed Sep 16, 2009 2:34 am ]
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Love how O'Cram has evolved into an urban legend of porn matrix so fast. :P

And I love the idea of pictures of atoms. :) I'm more interested in theoretical and quantum physics though - more 'wiggle room' for a lit major like me. ;) I often notice that some classically trained physists dislike those disciplines because they're too fluffy, vague and abstract. And guess who's good at that shit? :P
Author:  Satis [ Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:21 am ]
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lol...they may be abstract, but they're still mathematically demanding. heh... almost typed methamatically. Totally different meaning all of a sudden.

"I'm studying methamatics."
Author:  Rinox [ Thu Sep 17, 2009 2:23 am ]
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Would that be mathematics applied to the meth production business? If so, sign me up!!
Author:  Satis [ Thu Sep 17, 2009 5:36 am ]
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either that or mathematics while all methed up. Kinda like Bistromatics in HHGTHG
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