A new angle on collision theory

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Scientists shoot the world’s smallest projectiles – individual molecules – and use them to study how reactions happen

Using individual molecules as projectiles and targets, chemists in Canada have unravelled for the first time exactly what happens when two compounds collide to form a new bond.

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