Exotic, gigantic molecules fit inside each other like Russian nesting dolls

Exotic, gigantic molecules fit inside each other like Russian nesting dolls
Chicago IL (SPX) Jan 26, 2015 - University of Chicago scientists have experimentally observed for the first time a phenomenon in ultracold, three-atom molecules predicted by Russian theoretical physicsist Vitaly Efimov in 1970. In this quantum phenomenon, called geometric scaling, the triatomic molecules fit inside one another like an infinitely large set of Russian nesting dolls. "This is a new rule in chemistry that mo ... more

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