New type of atomic bond confirmed - vibrational bond

This is a total mind blow. Most armature scientists know of the main types of bonds, and most of us agree things happen faster when everything is hotter. Well scientists working on a atomic accelerator noticed something a bit strange.

What does this mean in the real world? No idea but I could lead to further findings and maybe the secret to the speed of light.

Read the whole story here http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chemists-confirm-the-existence-of-new-type-of-bond/

Chemistry has many laws, one of which is that the rate of a reaction speeds up as temperature rises. So, in 1989, when chemists experimenting at a nuclear accelerator in Vancouver observed that a reaction between bromine and muonium—a hydrogen isotope—slowed down when they increased the temperature, they were flummoxed.

Donald Fleming, a University of British Columbia chemist involved with the experiment, thought that perhaps as bromine and muonium co-mingled, they formed an intermediate structure held together by a “vibrational” bond—a bond that other chemists had posed as a theoretical possibility earlier that decade. In this scenario, the lightweight muonium atom would move rapidly between two heavy bromine atoms, “like a Ping Pong ball bouncing between two bowling balls,” Fleming says. The oscillating atom would briefly hold the two bromine atoms together and reduce the overall energy, and therefore speed, of the reaction. (