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February 7 2012

jtotheizzoe: After Recess, We’ll Be Inventing New Molecules You give some kids an atomic model set and they immediately fall asleep. Others, they struggle to recreate even a water molecule. Ten year-old Clara Lazen? She invented a new molecule. Playing around in her 5th-grade class, she arranged carbon, nitrogen and oxygen atoms into a molecule that had never been seen before. But when a local chemist studied the structure, the bonds all fit like they should and the structure was realistic, at the very least. They called it tetranitratoxycarbon. Now Clara has her name on a research paper, and despite the possible application of the molecule to explosives, she’s pretty excited to be a part of such an awesome science project. Check out a video feature on her discovery here. (via Humboldt State Now, image above of chemist Bob Zoellner with a model of tetranitratoxycarbon)

jtotheizzoe:

After Recess, We’ll Be Inventing New Molecules

You give some kids an atomic model set and they immediately fall asleep. Others, they struggle to recreate even a water molecule. Ten year-old Clara Lazen? She invented a new molecule.

Playing around in her 5th-grade class, she arranged carbon, nitrogen and oxygen atoms into a molecule that had never been seen before. But when a local chemist studied the structure, the bonds all fit like they should and the structure was realistic, at the very least. They called it tetranitratoxycarbon.

Now Clara has her name on a research paper, and despite the possible application of the molecule to explosives, she’s pretty excited to be a part of such an awesome science project.

Check out a video feature on her discovery here.

(via Humboldt State Now, image above of chemist Bob Zoellner with a model of tetranitratoxycarbon)

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    Wow, reason number infinity why I’m not going through with this major. 10 year olds are better at it than I am.
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    MR BLACK TOLD US ABOUT THIS.
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