There are 118 elements in the periodic table, each with a unique symbol and atomic number. Symbol: A one or two-letter abbreviation used to represent the element. Atomic number: The number of ...

These elements, with atomic numbers of 113, 115, 117, and 118 comprise the missing parts of period 7 – the lowest row – of the periodic table. Now, IUPAC, the International Union of Pure and ...

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 ...

Today we know there are 118 elements, all which can be found on the modern periodic table. The element germanium was discovered in 1886. Its properties were similar to the predicted ones of ...

Today we know there are 118 elements, all which can be found on the modern periodic table. The element germanium was discovered in 1886. Its properties were similar to the predicted ones of ...

118, on the other hand, had to wait until 2002 for successful synthesis by a ... Fame, even in science, is a fickle mistress. Sodium, like most elements in the periodic table could be said to have a ...

You're listening to Chemistry in its element brought to you by Chemistry World, the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry. A total of 25 transuranium elements have now been artificially ...

Yet there is also a class of elements so unstable they can only be made in a lab. These superheavy elements are the purview of a small group stretching the boundaries of chemistry. Can they extend the ...