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100-year-old chemistry rule proven false, textbook updates needed

100-year-old chemistry rule proven false, textbook updates needed

You know that feeling when everyone tells you something is impossible, so you never even try? That is what happened in chemistry for a hundred years. Students memorized a rule, one called Bredt’s rule, and then everyone obeyed it. Professors taught it. Nobody questioned it. And it was wrong. The team of chemists behind this study didn’t set out to …

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