Electron configuration and elemental properties of rubidium. (Image credit: Greg Robson/Creative Commons, Andrei Marincas Shutterstock) History. Rubidium was discovered by German chemists Gustav ...

If the wandering electron of the Rydberg rubidium came in contact with the positively charged end of the rubidium-potassium molecule, the attraction wouldn’t be quite strong enough to rip the ...

The electron beam causes some rubidium atoms to be ionized – and these are extracted from the lattice by an applied electric field. Other atoms just scatter electrons, but these atoms receive a kick ...