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Expanding the periodic table?
Email: Philip Hunter - phunter@philiphunter.com News from The Scientist 2005, 6(1):20050114-02
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Whole new classes of compounds can be created from small clusters of atoms acting like single atoms of another element, researchers demonstrate for the first time in work reported in this week's Science. Clusters of 13 aluminum atoms behave like halogens and can combine with them to form halogen compounds with novel properties, the researchers write. And clusters of 14 aluminum atoms act like single alkaline earth atoms capable of forming ionic compounds that are in effect new types of salt.
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