On: Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows

[LorenPechtel]

You can start your car.

Without relativistic effects a lead acid battery would put out about .2V rather than 2V.

[zyklu5 → LorenPechtel]

Nice! Thanks for this.

More details at: https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.4872

[lr1970 → zyklu5]

Thanks for the link to the paper published in 2010 (16 years) ago. The OP article from Brown reads as if they were the first to establish importance of Special Relativity for heavy atoms which is not true.

[LoveMortuus → lr1970]

I feel like that's often the case, right? Even gravity being describe first by Brahmagupta and Bhaskara II before Issac.