High pressure yields novel single-element 'compound'
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 - 10:50
in Physics & Chemistry
An international team of researchers including scientists at the Carnegie Institution has discovered a new chemical compound that consists of a single element?boron. Chemical compounds are conventionally defined as substances consist of two or more elements, but the researchers found that a high pressure and temperature pure boron can assume two distinct forms that bond together to create a novel 'compound' called boron boride...