Not All Rare Gases Are Noble

The inert gases, also termed rare or noble, remained hidden until the 1890s precisely because of their inertness. Since argon comprises almost 

In 1961, Neil Bartlett (1932- ), at the University of British Columbia in Canada, had his graduate student Derek Lohmann investigate an ionic salt he had made earlier. They discovered it has the formula 02TtF5 the oxygen molecule had been oxidized by PtF. The idea that an oxidizing 

Barnett Rosenberg, at Michigan State University, isolates cis-platin and establishes its anticancer role (first hinted at in 1963) 

Raul Crutzen discovers that oxides of nitrogen (NOJ destroy stratospheric ozone  

Cyril Ponnamperuma demonstrates that the amino acids found on the Murchison meteorite are racemic and therefore of extraterrestrial origin 

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