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SUBMITTER: Liu Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5838161 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liu Zhen Z Botana Jorge J Hermann Andreas A Valdez Steven S Zurek Eva E Yan Dadong D Lin Hai-Qing HQ Miao Mao-Sheng MS
Nature communications 20180305 1
Until very recently, helium had remained the last naturally occurring element that was known not to form stable solid compounds. Here we propose and demonstrate that there is a general driving force for helium to react with ionic compounds that contain an unequal number of cations and anions. The corresponding reaction products are stabilized not by local chemical bonds but by long-range Coulomb interactions that are significantly modified by the insertion of helium atoms, especially under high ...[more]