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 ...

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An Australian man described as a "science nerd" may face jail time, after attempting to collect all the elements in the ...

At that time, he had only 50 elements to arrange ... The zigzag, staircase, line in the diagram of the periodic table above separates the metals, on the left, from non-metals, on the right.

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Scientists have found that our bodies need 28 different elements to function properly. These are almost one-quarter of the periodic table and are mainly found in the first four periods.

A 24-year-old Australian man could go to jail for ten years as he prepares to plead guilty for importing plutonium from a ...

Heavy ligands such as polyoxometalates are opening a new frontier in actinide chemistry. Studying materials that are both ...

This year we celebrate the 150 th anniversary of Mendeleev’s achievement in formulating the structure of the periodic table that we use today. He announced his structure in 1869, but the challenge of ...