Boron is carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impression and wriggle its way into the matrix of a diamond. But it has one fewer electron, so it can't ...

When IUPAC proposed modifying the periodic table’s column numbering in 1985, it took about five years to decide and another 10 to 15 years for chemists to adopt the changes, Reedijk says.

New boron-lanthanide nanostructure Date: June 25, 2020 Source: Brown University Summary: A newly discovered nanocluster has a geometry that ''has not been observed in chemistry heretofore,'' the ...

This value matched a prediction made by a team at Tel Aviv University and suggests to some that the element has been socketed into the wrong spot on the periodic table for some time now.