With a dash of table salt, scientists have created exotic compounds that bend the basic rules of chemical bonds and matter in the universe, researchers report in the Dec. 20 Science. The team pulled ...

MOSCOW, 10 February. /TASS /. Gabriele Saleh, a research fellow at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), and Prof. Artem Oganov, a Laboratory Supervisor at MIPT and Professor at the ...

An Ionic bond is formed when one of the atoms can donate electrons to achieve the inert gas electron configuration and the other atom needs electrons to achieve the inert gas electron configuration.

In the field of exotic new materials, we've examined one of the strongest ones and another declared to be impossible; scientists now report creating "forbidden" materials out of ordinary table salt ...