One reason is that molten salts can corrode reactor vessels, slowly leaching chromium from alloys that otherwise perform well. To probe the corrosion process at the atomic level, Alexander S.

Scientists have expanded on a longstanding model ... at the atomic scale by the UC Irvine researchers as they performed mechanical compression on micropillars of an alloy of chromium, cobalt ...

Atomic number 28, atomic weight 58.71. Chromium (Cr): Chromium, a metallic element, is found in the earth's crust. It is used in the production of stainless steel to make the steel resistant to ...

"And the CPK model, which technically shows the spread of the electron cloud around an atomic nucleus, is too dense to discern some details. The reason is that neither of those models demonstrate ...