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In this periodic table of elements quiz, you have 10 minutes to name as many elements as you can, given only their symbol, atomic weight and the broad group they live in.
The four new elements have been officially confirmed as additions to the periodic table following their acceptance by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) on 30 December.
Unlike the even, square periodic table of old, the skewed, multicoloured table of 2019 shows many of the elements used to make mobile phones as being included on an ‘endangered list’.
Maybe it's because this year marks the 150th anniversary of the Periodic Table of the Elements. It's considered the founding document of modern chemistry, one you may have studied in school.
Silicon is the 14th element on the Periodic Table -- but, from concrete to microchips to alien life, it has the capacity to be so much more.
The periodic table may soon gain a new element, physicists at Lund University in Sweden announced Tuesday. A team of Lund researchers is the second to successfully create atoms of element 115.
2019 marks the 150th anniversary of the Periodic Table, a unique tool, enabling scientist to predict the appearance and properties of matter on the Earth and in the the Universe. Different elements ...
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.