All periodic table articles – Page 4
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Opinion'It blows my mind I get to use these facilities'
Element discoverer Dawn Shaughnessy on big science, future generations and Star Wars
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OpinionHave you had enough of the periodic table yet?
There are enough ways to organise the elements to suit everyone’s taste
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FeatureThe art of the periodic table
The venerable chart of elements has inspired and entertained in its first 150 years. Hayley Bennett looks at some of its weird, wacky – and wise – incarnations
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NewsNew record set for the world’s smallest periodic table
Table less than one fortieth the area of previous record holder is a gift for element maker Yuri Oganessian
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ArticleCelebrating the periodic table
Peter Wothers tells us about the first published version of Dmitri Mendeleev’s periodic table, currently on show in Cambridge
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ReviewExhibition: Celebrating the Periodic Table
A new exhibition at Cambridge University pays tribute to the chemical elements and their discoverers
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FeatureThe end of phlogiston and the discovery of oxygen
Pure air, dephlogisticated air or a new element? Josephy Priestley and Antoine Lavoisier get to grips with new gases in this month’s comic
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OpinionIYPT is good news for chemistry
Brimming with opportunity, IYPT is putting chemistry and chemists centre stage
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ReviewElemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything
A whistle-stop tour of the periodic table
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NewsYear-long celebration of the periodic table launched by Unesco
Hundreds gather in Paris to commemorate 150 years of Dmitri Mendeleev’s most enduring work
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FeatureThe discovery of the noble gases
How an extra line in the solar spectrum kicked off a search for the ‘missing metals’ that turned out to be noble gases
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OpinionWhose periodic table is it anyway?
Dmitri Mendeleev’s table was not the first – but it’s the one that matters
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OpinionIs this the world’s oldest classroom periodic table?
How a chart of elements from 1885 was found, rescued and restored
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ArticleThe elements of business
2019 marks 150 years since the periodic table was devised, and what better way to mark the occasion than by celebrating the vital contributions that elements make to major industries today?
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ArticleTom Lehrer: The Elements Song, live in Copenhagen
Tom Lehrer performs his chemistry anthem before a live audience in Copenhagen, 1967
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ArticleThe Elements Song - Periodic Table of Videos
The chemists behind Periodic Videos with their homage to Tom Lehrer’s elements song
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ArticleTom Lehrer's Elements - Helen Arney
Helen Arney performs her updated version of Tom Lehrer’s elements song