"When an alkali-metal atom bounces off a glass wall, it tends to stick for a little while," says Budker. "During its stay it is subject to fluctuating magnetic fields, which cause it to lose ...

A research team led by Prof. Pavel Jungwirth at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of ...

Cesium is also relatively "nice" in a theoretical sense, in that it's an alkali metal atom with only a single unpaired electron in the outermost shell, giving it a relatively simple energy level ...

who helps David explore how the electron configuration of an atom affects its ability to combine with other atoms. Discover why noble gases are not reactive and why halogens and alkali metals are ...

Theoretically, if one applied enough pressure to pure water, the water molecules would squish together and their valence shells, the outermost ring of electrons surrounding each atom, would overlap.

(Nanowerk News) Researchers at AIST, in collaboration with Osaka University, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Kyushu University, and National Tsing Hua University, have developed a technique to insert ...

Like the other alkali metals (lithium, sodium, potassium, cesium and francium), rubidium reacts violently with water, oxidizes when reacting with oxygen, and ignites due to humidity in the air ...

It examines a group of elements whose presence in the lunar atmosphere might come as a surprise to anyone who’s studied chemistry: alkali metals. Alkali metals form the first group of the ...