Vibrating Atoms (IMAGE)

California Institute of Technology

Vibrating Atoms

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Heat causes the atoms in ScF3 to vibrate, as captured in this snapshot from a simulation. Fluorine atoms are in green while scandium atoms are in yellow.

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Caltech/C. Li et al

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