Collapse Of Helium’s Chemical Nobility Predicted By Polish Chemist
Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - 11:28
in Physics & Chemistry
140 years since its discovery, and despite the best endeavors of many scientists, helium, the lightest of the 'noble' gases, still stubbornly refuses to enter into any chemical alliance. Now a new glimmer of hope has emerged from Poland as a chemist there has calculated that two new compounds containing a helium-oxygen bond could be formed.