Atom Clusters Have Interesting Properties 32
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers have found clusters of aluminum atoms that have chemical properties similar to single atoms of of other elements. That, says Science Blog, could open the door to a new periodic table of cluster elements to create compounds with distinctive properties never seen before."
Can't put my finger on it (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Can't put my finger on it (Score:1)
Old: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/
Um, this was on /. (Score:1)
Re:Um, this was on /. (Score:2)
(obligatory reply)
You're new here, aren't you?
Story Clusters (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Story Clusters (Score:1)
Re:Story Clusters (Score:2)
(death knell for any research scientist)
New element: duplonium (Score:5, Funny)
If taken internally, a person forgets what they did yesterday, thus duplicating effort today.
Slashdot editors have a line on this new element.
Re:New element: duplonium (Score:2)
Re:New element: duplonium (Score:2)
3 easy steps to prevent dupes (Score:5, Insightful)
Here are 3 easy steps on how to prevent duplicate articles. This is why your employeer pays you money.
1. Use your own search feature to search for the actual hyperlink and/or a few keywords.
2. Scan the article list over the last few days.
This will prevent the vast majority of Dupes, and it won't take too much of your time.
Finally, you should CHECK EMAIL SENT TO DADDYPANTS. Why isn't this done?
Frequently, email to 'daddypants' bounces back. Other times, the email is ignored and the duplicate article is posted. I rarely see a duplicate article get pulled from the queue.
If you actually check email sent to daddypants, it might encourage well-meaning
You have an army of subscribers who are willing to help out AND PAY YOU MONEY TO DO SO.
With my non-troll account, I am actually a subscriber. I like reading the articles before they get slashdotted, sometimes I'll post the text to a
Re:3 easy steps to prevent dupes (Score:1)
I second this!
Re:I didn't see a dupe. (Score:2)
Re:3 easy steps to prevent dupes (Score:2)
Actually, like any employer, they pay the editors money only because they think that the salary will have a good return on investment, i.e., that the editor's efforts will return more money to the coffers than not paying the editor would have.
So: they don't want to stop dupes; their bosses insist on the dupes! It's advertising revenue. We can't stop it no matter how loudly we complain.
Re:3 easy steps to prevent dupes (Score:2)
So, no, their bosses could not make more money by hiring better story pickers. (Unless by "better" you meant "willing to post more dupes"...)
Nevermind the dupe... (Score:3, Funny)
-Adam
Re:Nevermind the dupe... (Score:1)
Would you like some whale with that?
Dupe Schmupe (Score:2)
Molecules by another name? (Score:2)
What is the difference? If there is no difference then it is not news that the atomic and molecular forms of elements have different properties. eg: I find it safer to breath my oxygen atoms in bound pairs.
Re:Molecules by another name? (Score:1)
To my understanding, it's something like soap molecules in water which most of us would have learnt about at some stage. They have a spherical head part which loves water and a long tail which hates water. So, bunches of molecules form spherical "clusters" where all the tails are on the inside of the sphere, guarde
Re:Molecules by another name? (Score:2)