Boron is carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impression and wriggle its way into the matrix of a diamond. But it has one fewer electron, so it can't ...

This value matched a prediction made by a team at Tel Aviv University and suggests to some that the element has been socketed into the wrong spot on the periodic table for some time now.

New boron-lanthanide nanostructure Date: June 25, 2020 Source: Brown University Summary: A newly discovered nanocluster has a geometry that ''has not been observed in chemistry heretofore,'' the ...