All periodic table articles – Page 2
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OpinionWhat’s next after the International Year of the Periodic Table?
Chemistry outreach needs to build on IYPT in ways that connect with people and their lives
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OpinionCards on the table
Did the International Year of the Periodic Table have its expected impact?
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FeatureThe periodic patience of Dmitri Mendeleev
In our final comic of the International Year of the Periodic Table, Mendeleev puts his elemental cards on the table
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ResearchCopernicium behaves like a volatile noble liquid, simulations suggest
Relativity plays a part in making element 112 very different to its counterparts in group 12
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OpinionGood enough at last
Neil Withers reflects on the 2019 Nobel prize in chemistry, awarded for developing lithium-ion batteries
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FeatureLithium: Good enough for batteries
The powerful revolution in your pocket – starring Yoshio Nishi, John Goodenough, Akira Yoshino…and Thomas Edison
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FeatureChromium: Lust for colour
Van Gogh’s yellow sunflowers owe a debt to Louis Vaquelin, the chemist who discovered the element chromium
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FeatureAtom-by-atom experiments at the edge of the periodic table
Only a few atoms of oganesson have ever been made – and they all vanished in less time than it took you to read this
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FeatureChlorine, nitrogen and the legacies of Fritz Haber
His ammonia process fed the world – but he also pioneered chemical weapons
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ResearchSuperheavy oganesson is a semiconductor
The heaviest element known continues to defy the rules of the periodic table
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FeaturePlutonium: The element factory
Glenn Seaborg’s lab at Berkeley discovered plutonium – an element with uses beyond the deadly one we know well
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OpinionMachine-learning Mendeleevs have rediscovered the periodic table
Exposing new dimensions in the relationships between elements
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PodcastThe Periodic Table by Primo Levi – Book club
100 years on, we examine the effect of Primo Levi’s masterpiece The Periodic Table
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ArticleJohnson Matthey is taking charge of the electric vehicle revolution
The elements of future power
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ResearchIonisation energy of promethium fills one of the last holes in periodic table
Experiment puts an end to 75-year-old mystery
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FeatureP is for phosphorus
A reporter from Alchemistry World reveals the unpleasant secret behind The Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus
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FeaturePrimo Levi and the other periodic table
Author and chemist Primo Levi was born 100 years ago this July. Philip Ball looks at his chemical and literary legacy – including his books The Periodic Table and If This Is a Man