Champaign -- U.S. scientists studying chemical bonds have discovered such bonds do not necessarily break faster when they are stretched.
"Our findings contradict the intuitive notion that molecules are like rubber bands in that when we pull on a chemical bond, it should always break faster," said University of Illinois Professor Roman Boulatov, who led the study. "When we stretch a sulfur-sulfur bond, for example, how fast it breaks depends on how the nearby atoms move."
