All periodic table articles
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OpinionWordle meets the periodic table: Five games to test your chemistry knowledge
Love Wordle and chemistry? Combine the two with these daily chemistry-themed word games
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OpinionThe atomic weights of most chemical elements aren’t constant
But those values are constantly refined
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FeatureHow atomic weights change with scientific understanding
Why do the atomic weights on the periodic table keep changing? Kit Chapman meets the team behind the decimal places
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ResearchActinide bonding could be tweaked by adjusting oxidation states
Modelling reveals that control of mysterious phi bonds could change behaviour of f-block elements
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NewsAustralian who ordered radioactive materials over the internet walks away from court
Emmanuel Lidden had been attempting to collect every element on the periodic table
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OpinionClassifications, racial discrimination and Covid-19
Lessons with philosophical significance for how we group people and objects
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ResearchWorking towards an Australian First Nations periodic table
Zahra Khan finds out how a team of scholars is working with the Gadigal to develop a chart that celebrates Indigenous knowledge of the chemical elements
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NewsElement 120 may now be in reach and the hunt for it could begin next year
Particle accelerator tests have shown that titanium-50 can be used to make elements 114 and 116
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NewsPeriodic table of food initiative to uncover exactly what’s in our food
Project will create database of food compounds to standardise understanding of biomolecular composition of foods
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OpinionPredicting and discovering in chemistry
How scientists look into the past, present and future
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NewsMusical periodic table being built by turning chemical elements’ spectra into notes
Computer code that converts each element into a unique piece of music could provide a novel way to expand chemistry communication
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OpinionDoes the periodic table reveal laws of nature?
There could be more to learn from ordering the elements
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Research‘Periodic table’ of hydrocarbons maps ‘magic’ molecules with exceptional stability
Computational chemists calculate the stability of hydrocarbons and design a map with potential predictive power
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OpinionPeriod of discovery
Chemical space contained sufficient information to formulate the periodic system 25 years before Mendeleev
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OpinionHow does your garden grow?
With the help of a handful elements from the periodic table, of course
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OpinionHow values influence decisions in science
Empirical evidence is not always sufficient to determine the models we use
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ResearchPressure used to define relationship between atomic radii and electronegativity
Analysis of electronic state transitions uncovers long-sought connection between key chemical concepts
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OpinionLetters: December 2020
Readers muse on thermal hazard data, and ask for help with an embroidered periodic table