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New article about “watching electrons” during a chemical reaction at Stanford. Amazing.
Article by Dr. Haiwang Yong:
#Lasers

I. Gabalski/Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory 

Gabalski and his colleagues fired x-ray pulses at ammonia molecules undergoing a chemical reaction [1]. By analyzing the positions of scattered photons that hit a detector, the researchers were able to track the movement of key electrons during the reaction.