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What Is a Molecule?

21 May 2025

Surveys reveal that only 50 percent of people questioned know that the Earth goes around the sun once a year, and only 40 percent realize that electrons are smaller than atoms. That’s sad enough,...

Copernicium

31 May 2017

We can now add the newest element to the periodic table.  It has been named Copernicium in honour of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), the Polish astronomer who first hypothesized that the Earth...

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