Chemists strike gold, solve mystery about precious metal’s properties
Predicted, actual energy needed for ionization now match
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GOLD MINE Chemists have finally explained two of gold’s properties: the energy involved in removing or adding an electron to a gold atom. New theoretical calculations match up with values measured in experiments.
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