The researchers assumed a Morse potential for the potential energy of the interacting shell particles, often used as a model of the interaction between the two atoms in a diatomic molecule ...

A chemical reaction that's vital to a range of commercial and industrial goods may soon be initiated more effectively and less expensively.

Bromine is one of only two liquid elements. Iodine is solid. They exist as diatomic molecules - they have two atoms in each molecule. As you go down the group the halogens become less reactive.

The study, published in Nature, involves hydrogenation – adding the diatomic hydrogen molecule, H 2, to other compounds. “Hydrogenation is a critical and diverse reaction used to create food ...