September 13, 2006 at 3:28 pm - More than 2 years ago For more than a quarter century, scientists have been trying to determine the structure of a particular form of solid oxygen. TWO BY FOURS.

Scientists have observed a never-before-seen form of oxygen, and its behavior could call into question what nuclear physics says about “magic numbers”. Imagine, if you will, that you could see ...

Who knew oxygen could be so unpredictable.There are other examples of times when these normally magic and double magic numbers do not form a stable isotope. Specifically, isotopes of the elements ...

Oxygen is the key substance for life and one of the most abundant elements in the Earth. However, it's still unknown whether oxygen is present (and in which form it may exist) in the inner core ...

ICING OUT An unusual form of ice is made of a solid lattice of oxygen ions (circles in this illustration) through which hydrogen ions travel freely (pink trails), like a liquid. Signs of the ...

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