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20 Years of Discovery: How Has the Periodic Table Changed Over Time?
The periodic table organizes chemical elements based on atomic weight, electron configurations, and chemical properties, ...
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2 obscure clean energy metals are caught in the crosshairs of the US-China trade war
China outright banned exports of two metals to the United States following the Biden administration’s decision to further restrict U.S. chip exports. Gallium and germanium aren’t exactly household ...
Why are rubies red and emeralds green? Their colors come from the same metal in their atomic structure
Even though emeralds and rubies are very different colors, they both have the same secret ingredient in their atomic ...
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Systematic Study of Hard-Wall Confinement-Induced Effects on Atomic Electronic Structure
A multitude of studies have been published on the very first atoms of the periodic table; see ref (2) for a review dedicated to the H and He atoms confined by a finite or infinite spherical barrier ...
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Caesium, Cs, periodic table element stock illustration...
Caesium, Cs, periodic table element with name, symbol, atomic number and weight. Alkali metal with limited industrial uses, but commonly used in atomic clocks and as a source of gamma radiation for ...