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Researchers from the University of Würzburg are opening up new horizons in chemistry: They present the world's first triple bond between the atoms boron and carbon.

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Are benzynes really a triple bond, though, or are they more like a double bond with a "+" charge on one carbon and a "-" charge on the other?