elements
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Scientists Propose New Way of Ordering the Periodic Table
The periodic table of the elements, principally created by the Russian chemist, Dmitry Mendeleev (1834-1907), celebrated its 150th anniversary last year. It would be hard to overstate its importance as an organising principle in chemistry – all budding chemists become familiar with it from the earliest stages of their education. Given the table’s importance, one…
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Interactive Periodic Table Reveals Exactly How We Use All Those Elements
Briefly: We all know how common elements like oxygen and helium are used in every day life. But gallium? Selenium? Rhodium? Keith Enevoldsen has created an interactive periodic table that illustrates exactly where you may encounter even obscure elements on the chart. It’s like taking high school science all over again, except without the tests,…
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Your iPhone Houses All These Chemical Reactions Every Single Day
Other than the times we notice our battery bars inching towards the red or our screens go silent, we usually don’t think too about how it is our phones actually function. But as a new video from the Reaction YouTube channel shows, there’s a whole host of complex chemical reactions going on both during production…
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The Hardest Thing To Find In The Universe Is Even Rarer Than You Think
Staring at the periodic table of elements was pretty much all I did in science classes but I learned absolutely nothing from it other than Bromine and Barium (but that’s more because of a Google search on Breaking Bad). Anyways! Elements on that periodic table aren’t all created equal. Especially Astatine (At). That’s pretty much…