Admittedly , I did expend my puerility playing with explosives . But I for certain never had as much success as 10 - year - old Clara Lazen ( not show ) , who accidentally created anew energy hive away particle , tetranitratoxycarbon , that could be used as an explosive .
Using one of those molecular mould sets we all mess with in school , Clara forged a combination of atomic number 7 , atomic number 8 , and carbon copy atoms that stumped her 5th grade teacher . So he put the call out to Robert Zoellner ( depict ) at Humboldt State University to see if it was indeed a real molecule . His searches through an online chemical database recall no exact compeer , which meant that Clara had in fact strike a trade name new molecule .
Tetranitratoxycarbon , as it ’s called for short , uses the same combination of speck as nitroglycerin , and also has a knack for lay in energy . So if it were synthesized , it could be used to produce a fairly hefty manna from heaven . As a result of her discovery , Clara , and her instructor Kenneth Boehr , are both list as cobalt - authors on a inquiry paper published by Zoellner about the molecule . Also , I suspect she ’s probably getting an A on that assignment . [ Humboldt State UniversityviaThe Mary Sue ]
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