Morphing Atoms (IMAGE)

Tufts University

Morphing Atoms

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Chemists at Tufts University, collaborating with PerkinElmer and University College London, have witnessed atoms of one chemical element morph into another for the first time. In this simulation, the purple balls represent radioactive iodine-125 atoms on a gold surface; the green balls are atoms that have undergone nuclear decay into tellurium-125.

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Courtesy of Sykes and Michaelides Labs

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