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January 16th, 2019
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Arthur Suits
Suits and his team at the University of Missouri discovered spin flips happen in one half of one trillionth of a second, or half a picosecond in the course of a chemical reaction.
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Suits' Lab
Suits and his team at the University of Missouri tested whether spin flips could occur during a reaction by conducting a scattering experiment where beams of molecules collided into one another, creating a chemical reaction inside a vacuum chamber. Photo:
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