You're listening to Chemistry in its element brought to you by Chemistry World, the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Any chemist could talk for days about carbon. It is after all an ...

The periodic table captures a subtle pattern that runs through the chemical elements, the fundamental ... If you have 12 protons, that’s carbon. As you keep adding protons, you find that similar ...

This volume came from a symposium held during the 252 nd American Chemical Society National Meeting in August 2016, shortly after the completion 7th row of the periodic table. Its chapters explore the ...

If your first reaction when thinking about the periodic table relates to Mr. White’s chemistry class in “Breaking Bad,” let’s ...

These are almost one-quarter of the periodic table and are mainly found in the first four periods. Of these, 11 are essential elements that our bodies need in larger amounts: oxygen, carbon ...

But how many of these elements do you know? Test your knowledge and compete with other Live Science readers to see who can ...

You're listening to Chemistry in its element brought to you by Chemistry World, the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Keeping up with the neighbours is rarely a concern in the periodic table ...

You interact with about two-thirds of the elements of the periodic table every day. Some, like carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen, make up our bodies and the air we breathe. Yet there is also a class of ...