February 7, 2012
For Kansas City, Mo. student Clara Lazen, 10, a classroom assignment turned into a scientific finding: a new molecule, and her first mention in a scientific journal.
Lazen randomly arranged a unique combination of oxygen, nitrogen and carbon atoms.
Responding to a request by the teacher, Kenneth Boehr, Humboldt State University chemistry professor Robert Zoellner, a computational chemist, searched Chemical Abstracts.
The result:a molecule with the same… read more