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I wish I could understand this.

• Nursie 13y ago
  What I'm getting from this is that - > under relativity fast things are heavier > electrons are fast, they actually have about a 23% weight boost > heavier electrons 'orbit' closer to the nucleus > the atomic size is then smaller than anticipated > this has a bunch of interesting effects on melting points, reactivity, colour/reflectivity etc, (especially of transition metals?) > this stuff has not always been well understood. It's been a long time since I studied chemistry, so I may be reading it wrong. It's pretty cool though :)
  • VladRussian2 13y ago
    inter-disciplinary science of such effects http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_quantum_chemistry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_quantum_chemistry