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Vanadium Hydrogen Atom

Research team succeeds in taking image of hydrogen atom. A research team led by Yuichi Ikuhara, a professor of material science at the University of Tokyo, said Thursday it has succeeded in taking an image of a single hydrogen atom, the smallest and lightest of the chemical elements.
Although it had been thought that shooting direct images of a hydrogen atom, whose diameter is about one-10 millionth of a millimeter, was impossible, the team managed to do so using a state-of-the-art 'scanning transmission electron microscope" while examining vanadium hydride, known as a hydrogen storage material. (AP) Source 3n.

Atom Hydrogen Vanadium

Scientists make vanadium into a useful catalyst for hydrogenation. A chemist has boosted and analyzed the unprecedented catalytic activity of an element called vanadium for hydrogenation - a reaction that is used for making everything from vegetable oils to petrochemical products to vitamins. Source 5d.