The structural mystery of scandium fluoride illustrated
(PHYSorg.com Physics)

Whoever said rules were made to be broken wasn`t a physicist. When something doesn`t act the way you think it should, either the rules are wrong, or there`s new physics to be discovered. Which is exactly what UConn`s Connor Occhialini, a senior honors student majoring in physics and math, found when he began researching scandium fluoride.