Molecular physicist working on artificial photosynthesis, and trying to figure out how to repair the atmosphere. 🌍
Main account: @InvaderXan
Molecular physicist working on artificial photosynthesis, and trying to figure out how to repair the atmosphere. 🌍
Main account: @InvaderXan
Wait, there's an entire journal called pteridines? Official Journal of the International Society of Pteridinology?
I feel like maybe I've underestimated this one weird type of molecule...
Some journal papers are a bit like Ikea furniture. If you just pick one thing off the shelf, you don't quite get everything you need.
Especially with letters and other short, rapid publications, you'll find separate supplementary information documents. And I just wish they'd let people put all the necessary information into a single document, as appendices if need be, instead of imposing arbitrary page or word limits.
It just bugs me TBH.
The correct answer, surprisingly, is the Top Quark!
Here are the rest masses of these particles, from highest to lowest, in MeV/c².
Top Quark 173210 MeV/c²
Higgs Boson 125180 MeV/c²
Xenon atom 122299 MeV/c²
Omega Meson 782 MeV/c²
Honestly, the fact that there are subatomic particles which are heavier than some large atoms still surprises me too.
Particle physics pop quiz! ⚛️ Which of these particles has the most mass?
I'll post the answer after the poll closes. Please don't cheat and look up numbers!
Solar cell efficiency tables
(version 52) Green et al (2018)