The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements Sam Kean Little, Brown and Company: 2010. 400 pp. $24.99, £18. ...

A new version of the periodic table arranges elements by protons instead of electrons. ... and so forth. Overall, the numbers representing full-up electron shells are 2, 10, 18, 36, ...

Thermochemistry and the Periodic Table (ENERGY OF TRANSFER OF ELECTRONS ON OXIDATION) T. C. SUTTON 1 Nature volume 130 , pages 474–475 ( 1932 ) Cite this article ...

Discover the history, structure, and importance of the periodic table of elements, from Mendeleev’s discovery to modern scientific applications. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

The periodic table of the elements isn't as confusing as it looks. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists had a ...

Physicists have filled in some longtime blank spaces on the periodic table, calculating electron affinities of the lanthanides, a series of 15 elements known as rare earths. Physicists at Michigan ...

The first 117 elements on the periodic table were relatively normal. Then along came element 118. Oganesson, named for Russian physicist Yuri Oganessian (SN: 1/21/17, p. 16), is the heaviest ...

The periodic table of elements that most chemistry books depict is only one special case. This tabular overview of the chemical elements, which goes back to Dmitri Mendeleev and Lothar Meyer and the ...

For any element in the periodic table, the number of electrons in an atom of that element always equals the number of protons in the nucleus. But this is not true for neutrons. Atoms of the same ...

In 2015, after more than a decade of vetting and rechecking, element 118 officially joined the periodic table of the elements, the world's master list of matter.

The Quick Periodic Table of the Elements app gives users a slightly different take on the periodic table. Instead of just presenting a single version that’s color-coded the traditional way (by ...