Never-Before-Seen 'Black Nitrogen' Plugs Puzzle in Periodic Table (newatlas.com) 36
Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have created a form of nitrogen that's never been seen before. Nicknamed "black nitrogen," the new substance is crystalline, occurs in two-dimensional sheets, and could one day be useful in advanced electronics. From a report: Strangely enough, the idea that black nitrogen didn't exist has long been considered a mystery. The periodic table is arranged in recurring "periods" where each column is made up of elements with similar properties. Those at the top have the fewest protons and the lowest weight, and each successive element in the group gains protons and weight. Under high pressure, elements on the top of a column usually take on structures similar to elements further down the group. These different forms are known as allotropes. Ozone is an allotrope of oxygen, for example, while graphite and diamond are both allotropes of carbon. But nitrogen only has one allotrope -- dinitrogen -- and doesn't have any that resemble heavier elements in its group. This was always considered a bit weird, but now a new study has found a previously-unknown allotrope that shows that nitrogen isn't an exception to the rule, as has long been believed.
Being Black means living under extreme pressure. (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re: Being Black means living under extreme pressur (Score:3)
It's #BAM, dummy
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Came here for this (Score:3)
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#AllAtoms'Matter, my electron microscope sees no color.
University of Bayreuth (Score:4, Funny)
I liked him better when he was a baseball player for the yankees.
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The Red Sox never should have traded...
Damned racist scientists! (Score:1)
On to tinking (Score:2)
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Triple bond (Score:2)
My high school chemistry tells me that nitrogen is already quite happy with the strongest bond and lowest energy state possible between two atoms.
Re: Triple bond (Score:2)
Yes, nitrogen is very happy being N2. In fact, itâ(TM)s so happy that many nitrogen-bearing molecules want to go back to being really happy, really really fast.
Oblig Stuff I won't work with link (Score:2)
Oblig
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/p... [sciencemag.org]
Useful, unlikely (Score:2)
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That was my first impression. It's great that they found this allotrope, but useful applications . . .? Unlikely.
Re:Useful, unlikely (Score:4, Insightful)
Useful application is probably in better modelling and hence better experiment quality in software. Direct usefulness? Looks unlikely.
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coating for a fusion reactor? an undesirable outcome that must be managed in said fusion reactor? A hockey rink near the center of Jupiter?
It was later revealed that it's not voting for Bid (Score:1)
It was later revealed that it's not voting for Biden, so it ain't black.
Nitrogen triazide (Score:2)
N(N3)3
Always wondered if it could ne made. Should be a heck of an explosive.
Re: Nitrogen triazide (Score:1)
Look at me. YOU're the oxidizer now! :D
Re: Nitrogen triazide (Score:3)
Re:Nitrogen triazide (Score:5, Informative)
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/p... [sciencemag.org]
N3 exists. (Score:2)
It is not stable, but it exists.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... [wikipedia.org]
Fast & Furious (Score:2)
Oh, we're definitely going to get another movie now!
Soooo... (Score:2)
How unstable is it? ...
*Grins in Explosions&Fire [youtube.com]*
Black Nitrogen? (Score:1)
Sounds like the perfect name for a new comic book superhero.
Black Nitrogen! Suffocates villains without them ever being aware of it. They just go peacefully to sleep and die. Ker-Plow! Ker-Plooey! Ker-zzzzzzzzz!
Proves Chemists are Different From Physicists (Score:2)
This just goes to show that Chemists are different from physicists. These chemists found something, know what it is, and put Dark in front of the name. When Physicists don't know what something is then they call it Dark (Matter, Energy, ...).