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 ...

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 ...

The periodic table continues to evolve with the progress of science. In nature, only elements up to atomic number 94 exist; to go further, it was necessary to synthesise new elements in the laboratory ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

February 7 is National Periodic Table Day, when we celebrate the efforts of scientists over the centuries to figure out how different elements ...

in the periodic table. It completes the seventh period and belongs to group 18 of the noble gases. So far, only five atoms of Oganesson have been successfully produced through nuclear collision ...

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 ...