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Abstract
Relativistic effects can strongly influence the chemical and physical properties of heavy elements and their compounds. This influence has been noted in inorganic chemistry textbooks for a couple of decades. This review provides both traditional and new examples of these effects, including the special properties of gold, lead-acid and mercury batteries, the shapes of gold and thallium clusters, heavy-atom shifts in NMR, topological insulators, and certain specific heats.Entities:
Year: 2012 PMID: 22404585 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-032511-143755
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Annu Rev Phys Chem ISSN: 0066-426X Impact factor: 12.703