A small piece of sodium metal is placed in a flask of chlorine gas. A little water helps expose the sodium so it can react with the chlorine gas. The reaction releases a lot of heat as the ionic ...

"Unfortunately, it's hard to use this tool in ion-atom collisions because of a complex interaction between the ion and the trap used to hold it in place.

Photoluminescent materials are more than just the glow-in-the-dark stars your parents glued to your bedroom ceiling as a ...

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A helium atom has two electrons in an energy level outside the nucleus. The atom is neutral as it has two positive protons and two negative electrons. A helium atom that has lost or gained an ...

Atoms are very small. They have a radius of around 1 × 10 10 metres. This symbol shows that chlorine has 35 particles in the nucleus (protons and neutrons), 17 of which are protons. It also tells ...

Carbon dioxide reacts with water to produce carbonic acid. The double arrow means that carbonic acid breaks down pretty readily to form carbon dioxide and water again. A hydrogen atom from the ...

When building an atom, pay close attention to the particles' electrical charges. Protons have a charge of +1. Electrons have a charge of -1. Neutrons are neutral, as its name implies. A stable ...

IonQ's Forte Enterprise quantum computer is now available on Amazon Braket, the cloud giant's quantum platform. According to the company, the 36-qubit Forte Enterprise quantum processing unit (QPU) ...

Their paper: Long-Lived Quantum Memory Enabling Atom-Photon Entanglement over 101 km of Telecom Fiber, Yiru Zhou, Pooja Malik, Florian Fertig, Matthias Bock, Tobias Bauer, Tim van Leent, Wei Zhang, ...