It melts at 1410 C. The electronic configuration of the silicon atom is: (Ne)(3s) 2 (3p) 2, and the atomic radius is 0.132 nm. Silicon has the diamond cubic crystal structure with a lattice parameter ...

The electronic configuration for the Ni atom is (Ar)(3d) 10 (4s) 2, and the atomic radius is 0.124 nm. At room temperature the crystal structure is face-centered-cubic with a basis of one Ni atom. The ...

A research team at National Taiwan University has discovered how single metal atoms dynamically adapt their structure and ...