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The periodic table, also called the periodic table of elements, is an organized arrangement of the 118 known chemical elements. The chemical elements are arranged from left to right and top to ...
Gallium is one of the most mind-blowing elements on the periodic table, and this video will take you deep into its strange ...
In this periodic table of elements quiz, you have 10 minutes to name as many elements as you can, given only their symbol, atomic weight and the broad group they live in.
The U.S. and China, two of the world’s largest economies, broke new territory in trade negotiations over rare earth elements.
The team of physicists from The University of Arizona say they were motivated by the possibility of Compact Ultradense ...
The periodic table of chemical elements, often called the periodic table, organizes all discovered chemical elements in rows (called periods) and columns (called groups) according to increasing atomic ...
A 1947 edition of Dmitri Mendeleev’s periodic table of elements is shown. (Sovfoto / UIG via Getty Images) Within 15 years, three of the elements he predicted in detail were discovered.
The elements on the periodic table of elements are listed in ways that emphasize certain relationships. There are families, periods (the horizonal rows) and groups (the vertical columns).
It seems as if the makeup of the periodic table would be as rudimentary as apples falling down, not up. There’s evidence for elements like oxygen, iron, and silicon all around.
The periodic table of the elements, principally created by the Russian chemist, Dmitry Mendeleev (1834-1907), celebrated its 150th anniversary last year. It would be hard to overstate its importance ...
The periodic table stares down from the walls of just about every chemistry lab. The credit for its creation generally goes to Dimitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemist who in 1869 wrote out the known ...
The iconic chart of elements has served chemistry well for 150 years. But it’s not the only option out there, and scientists are pushing its limits. By Siobhan Roberts When Sir Martyn Poliakoff ...