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Isn’t it a ring shape?

• gus_massa 1y ago
  No, it's almost linear with a small glitch in the center https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09032-9/figures/4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09032-9/figures/4
  • meepmorp 1y ago
    That's just 3 nitrogen molecules in a trench coat
    • lazide 1y ago
      With a claymore strapped to their chest!
    • gus_massa 1y ago
      I know it's a joke, but recently a coworker showed us a preprint about theoretical calculations of long strings of nitrogen. They are very unestable and almost immediately they split into a bunch of N2 molecules. So "just 3 nitrogen molecules in a trench coat" is a good characterization of the situation.
• rini17 1y ago
  No, they only mentioned that hexanitrobenzene has too small dissociation energy computed, sadly.