Carbon–bismuth bonds reveal that relativity blurs the textbook line between sigma and pi bonds

Brown University chemists have provided direct evidence that upends the textbook explanation of how triple chemical bonds ...
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Special relativity can warp chemical bonds – now we've seen it happen

An experiment with a charged molecule of bismuth and carbon reveals how effects from Albert Einstein’s special relativity ...
Hackaday

Even Chemical Bonds Obey Einstein’s Relativity

Although Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is typically associated with really large and really heavy things like planets in ...
Nature

Carbon bond that uses only one electron seen for first time: ‘It will be in the textbooks’

Katherine Bourzac is a freelance journalist in San Francisco, California. For a little more than a century, chemists have known that strong atomic links called covalent bonds are formed when atoms ...