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Published online 16 November 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news011122-3
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New form of oxygen found
Scientists have detected a molecule they've been looking for since the 1920s.
Scientists in Italy have discovered a new form of oxygen1. In addition to the two well-known forms - ozone and the oxygen molecules in air - there is a third, they say, in which oxygen atoms are grouped in fours.
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