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 ...

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).

Scientists have discovered a new way of creating superheavy elements by firing supercharged ion beams at dense atoms. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Can you name everything from Ac to Zr? Test your knowledge of the periodic table and see if you can top the leaderboard ...

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 ...

unique place in the periodic table, and unique atomic weight. The production of this element from uranium through the intermediary of ionium, and the production of helium from radium, and ...

For dinner tonight, you are being treated to the tasting menu of a lifetime. The periodic table of elements. Which elements would you be able to eat? Which ones would taste or smell funny? And which ...