The formula H₂O shows that water is made from two atoms of hydrogen (H) bonded to one atom of oxygen (O). Katie: Time for some science. And today it's a chemistry classic, the periodic table ...

The new computer facility was quickly established, but it soon became apparent that many of the symbols and formulas in chemistry could not be translated. So Schleppenbach went back to the faculty, ...

As part of the general movement to this end the International Association of Chemical Societies, founded in 1911, set up a Commission for the Unification of Physico-chemical Symbols, and in 1913 ...