150 years ago, Mendeleev perceived the relationships of the chemical elements. ... For physics, it’s Newton’s Principia of 1687, the book that introduced the laws of motion and gravity.

Favorite element: “There are many reasons this book is called Carbon and not Oganesson. Nothing against oganesson, by the way, ... alongside a chemical structure of a C 60 buckyball.

Wonderful Life with the Elements, translated from the Japanese and published by No Starch Press, is a great book for chemistry students and anyone who loves to see chemistry and comics in tandem ...

In the Disney Periodic Table, the element iron, for example, is represented by Captain Hook from the film Peter Pan because the villain has an iron hook for a hand. The element hafnium is ...

A chemical element is one of those squares on the periodic table that adorns many a classroom wall. Sure. But what is an element really? It is a more subtle question that you might realise. To get ...

Learn about elements, compounds and mixtures in this KS3 Chemistry guide from BBC Bitesize.

Melissa Block and Robert Siegel read entries from a Web site that offers short poems about each of the chemical elements. The site, iSciFiStory.com, asked people to write haiku about their favorites.

The noble gases are the chemical elements in group 18 of the periodic table. They are the most stable due to having the maximum number of valence electrons their outer shell can hold. Therefore ...

One such element is Promethium, and a new study from scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has successfully analyzed chemical properties of the rare earth metal some 80 years after its ...

The heaviest recognized chemical element with the atomic number 112 was discovered at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung and -- since February 19, 2010, -- officially carries the ...