Ten-year girl from an American city of Kansas City, doing the job the teacher accidentally invented a previously unknown molecular structure - a new substance that may help in the creation of new methods of energy storage.
Lazy Pyatiklassnitsa Claire attends a school that operates according to the method of Maria Montessori. One of the lessons she and her classmates were assigned to - build models of molecules of the colored balls, ... Claire assembled from parts - ...
He was contacted by e-mail from his friend Bob Zellner, a professor of chemistry at the University, and sent him a picture of a strange design. Zellner was not able to respond immediately to his friend, known to chemists is the substance.
The scientist studied the database of articles, which stores the scientific work in chemistry in 1904, and found only one article, which referred to a substance - tetranitratoksikarbon. However, the structure devised schoolgirl atoms were located in a different order, and thus the chemical properties of this molecule should be different.
Zellner, who is engaged in computer modeling of new chemical compounds, studied the structure and concluded that this substance can be used for energy conservation. He noted that it contains the same group of atoms, like nitroglycerin - a powerful explosive. Maybe Claire actually invented a new type of explosives, and maybe something else.
Scientist posted an article about the new material in the Journal of Computational and Theoretical Chemistry. As a result, Claire Lazy co-authored a scientific article in a decade.
Zellner hopes that this event may enhance the interest girls in science.
... If I can save her schoolmates and some of its interest in science, I'll assume that I have achieved success, ...
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