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The periodic table of chemical elements, often called the periodic table, organizes all discovered chemical elements in rows (called periods) and columns (called groups) according to increasing atomic ...

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See if you can organize the first 25 elements of the periodic table in order in the quiz below. The periodic table as we know ...

Can France claim the first periodic table? Probably not, but a French Geology Professor made a significant advance towards it, even though at the time few people were aware of it. Alexandre Béguyer de ...

The answer, at first, is boring: it’s a simple no. But the reasons why you cannot are complex and varied – some come from the ...

You'll find it on the wall of nearly every school chemistry laboratory in the land. And generations of children have sung the words, "hydrogen and helium, lithium, beryllium..." in an attempt to ...

Everything we can see and touch, and quite a lot that we can’t as well, is made of tiny particles called atoms. Some substances, like particles of this iron, contain only one kind of atom.

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The Cold War arms race, Ancient Egyptian make-up and medieval laxatives. What do all these things have in common? They all have a link to the periodic table, which turned 150 in 2019! Here are ...