Many scientists worked on the problem of organizing the elements, but Dmitri Mendeleev published his first version of the periodic table in 1869, and is most often credited as its inventor. Since then ...

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However, he is remembered for his search for a pattern in inorganic chemistry. Just four years before Mendeleev announced his periodic table, Newlands noticed that there were similarities between ...

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the book moves systematically from the general application of chemistry to medicine, through topics such as gravity, crystallization and electricity, to the detail of the actions of specific elements, ...

Since this podcast was first published, the name of this element has been ratified as flerovium (symbol Fl) by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (Iupac). The name recognises ...

Nature Chemistry - The story of the last element to be discovered out of the first 92 catalogued in the periodic table is told by Eric Scerri, who reminds us that technetium can be found a little ...

For all their nobility, elements ... get a seat at the table. But Ramsey established their position between halogens and alkali metals, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 for ...

The questions in this quiz are suitable for GCSE chemistry students studying the physical and chemical properties of group 0 elements (noble gases), group 1 elements (alkali metals) and group 7 ...

It took weeks to observe the behavior of one and a half dozen precious, but very short-lived, atoms of these exotic elements.

of~an~element} = \frac{mass~of~an~element~in~the~compound}{relative~formula~mass~M_r} \times 100\) There are six atoms of hydrogen in the compound, so the mass of hydrogen is 6 × 1 = 6.