IN the years prior to the war endeavours were made by various internationally constituted bodies to secure greater uniformity in the symbols used in different countries and by different writers to ...

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 ...

SYMBOLS are both an aid and an obstacle to thought. Their brevity and simplicity may help us, working according to a fixed system, to perform mental operations which without their aid might be ...

It happens all over the periodic table. The chemical symbol for lead is Pb. For mercury, Hg. For antimony, Sb. My chemistry teacher in high school cracked up every time she referred to the symbol for ...

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Update: The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has confirmed the name “Copernicium” for element 112 and given it the symbol Cn. The first choice for the chemical symbol, “Cp”, was ...

Four new elements now have names. In December, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry officially recognized the discovery of elements 113, 115, 117 and 118, filling out the seventh row ...

In a significant breakthrough for the scientific community, a new element has been confirmed on the periodic table. This discovery holds potential implications for a wide range of scientific fields, ...

We’ve reached the limit of a very successful way to make new elements in the lab. In new research, scientists unveil a new take on that technology and report its success. The heaviest elements could ...