Four new elements were added to the periodic table in 2015. These elements go through a long process to confirm their existence and to name them. ... Sometimes they can be in liquid or gas form.

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World From the Periodic Table of Elements. By Sam Kean. Little, Brown and Company; 2010.

Software engineer Keith Enevoldsen designed the interactive Periodic Table of Elements, in Pictures and Words, ... and symbols indicate whether an element is a solid, liquid, or gas.

The periodic table is a way of arranging all of these chemical elements and putting similar ones together. Image source, Getty Images Each square on the table includes a number and letters.

Each element is not only given unique iconography in the periodic table, but each is given its own page with all of the above and other details such as symbol, melting point, boiling point ...

Keith Enevoldsen // CC BY-SA 4.0. Enevoldsen’s table can also be used to study other facts, like each element’s atomic number and material state (solid, liquid, or gas).

I'll be covering only 25 or so elements here—the periodic table has (as of April) 118. This blog will contain mostly new material and will also cover newsier topics than the book does.

Despite the handy chart that is the Periodic Table of Elements, memorizing the properties of each chemical element is not always an easy task for visual learners. But Bunpei Yorifuji’s Wonderful ...

Mendeleev left blank spaces in his original periodic table so that he could properly line up the known elements. Gallium, element 31, was his first gap to be filled, in 1875.

To account for this, most periodic tables hive off the elements making up this f-block, putting it below the table, leaving a gap in group 3. Fair enough. But there is debate over which of the ...