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High School Nature Reports That Physicists Turn Lead into Gold
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High School Covalent bonds in diamond
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High School How does lattice vibration affect electron mobility in semiconductor?
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High School Why did Rutherford conclude the atom was mostly empty space?
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High School PV cell charge separation by an external electric field
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High School How Fast Do Different Atoms Vibrate?
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High School Is the Higgs Boson the Only Source of Mass?
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High School Atom absorbing a photon and emitting a photon afterwards
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High School Why is my small Bi-2223 superconductor not levitating or locking above magnets?
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High School Can anyone explain the zero bias dark current observations in this paper?
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High School New Theory Explaining Why Certain Alloys don't change size when heated
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High School Why don't electrons leave a metal surface?
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High School Is it possible to ionise a solid, so that it has no electrons left?
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High School What does this distance of an atom mean?
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High School What causes the drop of latent heat at lower temperatures in liquid helium?
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High School Atomic Energy Levels: Simplified Explanations for the Curious
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High School Quantum Physics and Atomic Physics
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High School Can atoms not notice each other?
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High School Can you create neutronium by colliding electrons and protons?
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High School Something strange about doping semiconductors
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High School Proof of the existence of atoms
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High School What is the focus of Atkins' popular textbook in physical chemistry?
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High School How does the hydrogen line spectrum work with only one orbit?
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High School Assistance finding the nuclear energy difference during nuclear fusion
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High School Field distribution in semiconductors
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High School Electrostatic charge build up in environmental electron microscopy
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High School Is it the nucleus or a proton at the center?
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High School Are BEC vortex lattices individual atoms?
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High School Fusing Neutrons: Can It Lead to Cold Fusion?
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High School Why are absorption spectra continuous?
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High School How does the doping concentration affect the depletion width?
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High School Missing mass in atomic systems
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High School Understanding Crystal Structures: Energy Considerations
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High School Collapse of a neutron star - strong nuclear force vs gravity
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High School Viewing IR radiation with cell phone cameras
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High School Question about final k.e. of alpha and Polonium after decay of Radon
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High School Are Subatomic particles a form of matter?
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High School Volume of a solid at absolute zero
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High School Are energy bands in solid state timeless?
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High School Why one substance does not pass through another substance？
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High School How trapped ions can be used to make Atomic clocks?
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High School What happens when you push a rod?
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High School How can an atom have a negative charge?
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High School Reduced mass to atomic mass units conversion help please
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High School Notation for indexing a crystal direction
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High School Don't understand proof of Bloch theorem
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High School Calculating the Total Energy of a lattice w/ the Madelung constant
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High School Hydrogen anions - how do they form?
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High School What is Plasma? Is Tungsten Vapour a Gas or Plasma?
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High School What occurs when electrons stop orbiting the nucleus?
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High School Why don't solids always stick together?
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High School Is there a Relativistic Quantum Chemistry Table?
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High School Mechanical Resonance and Natural Frequency at the Atomic/Lattice Level
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High School Why don't the air atoms in the microwave warm up?
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High School Chemical Potential μ in Solids
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High School What Is the Role of Angle Potentials in Atomic Interactions?
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High School What is the purpose of the depletion region in P-N junction semiconductors?
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High School What are the different ways to create negative effective mass
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High School Properties of graphene/borophene etc.
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High School A doubt on Rutherford's Scattering experiment
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High School A doubt on Thomson's Experiments to determine the value of e / m_e
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High School Can Materials Change Properties in Response to Different Radiations?
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High School Highly conductive, reflective and heat resistant material
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High School Conduction Band Filled: Can Semiconductor Act as Insulator?
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High School Doping in semicondctors (n type)
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High School Are Protons Atoms? Is It True?
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High School What Fills the Space Between the Nucleus and Electron Shells in an Atom?
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High School Has anyone ever built a superconducting quenchgun?
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High School Ultra high pressure supersolid helium
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High School In theory, could any element become unstable?
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High School Oxygen Transformation: A Puzzling Phenomenon
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High School Atom's mass -- does it change with energy levels?
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High School Elucidating atomic scale vs. macro scale
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High School How are the mercury atoms in a fluorescent lamp ionised?
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High School Superconductor at 250K, 170GPa
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High School Calculating Elementary Charge Using Millikan's Experiment Results
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High School Factors contributing to the atomic mass of an atom
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High School Why is it possible to push your finger through butter?
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High School We Need a Wall - Electrons are Crossing Our Borders
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High School Are Atoms Glued? Learn What Happens
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High School Graphene Stacked at 1.1 degrees Superconducts
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High School Why do metastable states in atoms exist?
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High School Bose-Einstein Condensate Photons
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High School What Does Not Allowed in Quantum Theory Mean Regarding Band Gaps?
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High School What causes solidity of objects?
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High School Comparing sizes of atoms of an apple the size of the Earth
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High School The physical properties of diamonds: no melting point?
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High School What is the work function of graphene sheets?
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High School Breaking Down the Mystery of Ice VII Nucleation
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High School Experimental Virial Equation for real gases
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High School I want to know about cold finger cryostat?
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High School My Third Post: Change of Intermolecular Distance?
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High School Magnons: Alternative to Electrons for Circuit Design
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High School Can graphene be used as a template for graphene growth
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High School Is this real verified science?
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High School The Nature of Reality: Understanding the Behavior of Subatomic Particles
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High School Unveiling the Mystery of Invisible Atoms
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High School Why is an electric arc needed for spectroscopy of clear gases?
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High School How the atom was proven to exist?
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High School Superfluid Helium and its use at CERN
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