Atomic disguise makes helium look like hydrogen
- Kind
- Internet Article
- Date
- 18:37 28 January 201
- Publisher
- New Scientist
- Retrieved
- Jan 30, 2011
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How to Disguise a Helium Atom as a Hydrogen Atom
Donald Fleming of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and colleagues managed to disguise a helium atom as a hydrogen atom byreplacing one of its orbiting electrons with a muon, which is far heavier than an electron. Because it is so heavy, the muon sits 200 times closer to the helium nucleus than…