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How does Nikola Tesla and his inventions apply to chemistry?

madasonblue asked:


For chemistry, I have to explain how Nikola Tesla pertained to chemistry… and I honestly can’t think of how to tie what he did to chemistry in any way… Help?

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• #1 by shalleep on February 12, 2010 - 11:29 pm

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  Well, his work on electricity pertains more to physics. But, his work on electromagnetic radiation form the basis for a couple of chemistry instruments.

  Tesla worked a lot on XRays and they are used to do XRay crystallography, which is used to determine the 3-D chemical structure of macromolecules like proteins.

  Electromagnetic radiation is also integral to Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) which is used to look at molecular dynamics in chemistry….