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Celebrate the International Year of the Periodic Table in 2019 with these engaging online elements. ... It's a perfect way to get up close and personal with everything from mercury to europium.
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So, will the periodic table hold up? Or as Pekka Pyykko, a computational chemist at the University of Helsinki, put it in the title of a 2016 paper: “Is the periodic table all right (‘PT OK ...
Mathematicians Are Close to Building the Perfect Periodic Table of Shapes The table will unlock a whole new wave of discoveries. By Darren Orf Published: Oct 16, 2023 9:00 AM EDT ...
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.
But what really reinforced my love of mercury—and got me interested in the periodic table as a whole—was learning about all the places that mercury popped up in history.
Four newly discovered elements managed to squeak their way in just before the end of 2015, filling up the table's seventh row and marking the first additions since 2011. The four new elements ...
Meet nihonium (Nh), moscovium (Mc), tennessine (Ts) and oganesson (Og), the newest elements on the periodic table to receive names. But don’t get too attached to the nomenclature for these ...