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A NEW TYPE OF NITROGEN - Periodic Table of Videos

2025-08-26

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Researchers discover a new allotrope of Nitrogen - it's N6

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The N6 paper - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09032-9

Professor Peter Schreiner - https://www.uni-giessen.de/de/fbz/fb08/Inst/organische-chemie/schreiner/prs-group/coworkers/schreiner

Discussing the research in this video is also Professor Martyn Polikaoff.

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Nitrogen - /youtube/video/H8XNdqA18-M

Nitrogen Triiodide - /youtube/video/JME_He6PH4M

Black Nitrogen - /youtube/video/dxPKuxrrG7A

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