You're listening to Chemistry in its element brought to you by Chemistry World, the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Hello, this week we're almost at the top of the periodic table because ...

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 ...

The noble gases (Helium, Neon, Argon etc ... Meyer was just four years older than Mendeleev, and produced several Periodic Tables between 1864-1870. His first table contained just 28 elements, ...

If an atom has 2 protons, that’s an atom of the element helium. If it has 7 protons, that’s nitrogen. But the logic of the periodic table also relies upon the number and organisation of electr ...

each of the elements in group 18 end with the suffix ~on, instead of the suffix for the rest of the periodic table, ~ium (helium is the exception to this rule due to historical precedent).

But how many of these elements do you know? Test your knowledge and compete with other Live Science readers to see who can come top in our periodic table quiz. The periodic table of elements is a ...

And generations of children have sung the words, "hydrogen and helium, lithium, beryllium..." in an attempt to memorise some of the 118 elements. This year, the periodic table of chemical elements ...

So how has the periodic table been put together ... Any letters that follow will be lower case letters, for example, helium is He. Some element symbols are simple. For example, oxygen is O.Others ...

Using lasers beams to measure the nuclear radius of isotopes at the end of periodic table. Elements at the end of the ...

Where does the periodic table of chemical elements end and which processes lead to the existence of heavy elements? Researchers report on experiments to come closer to an answer. They gained insight ...