Manchester scientists have revealed how arsenic molecules might be used to ‘fish out’ the most toxic elements from radioactive nuclear ... research has focussed on developing our understanding of how ...

They all have a link to the periodic table, which turned 150 in 2019 ... they glow like this because curium is really radioactive and therefore toxic. It’s also been to space on numerous ...

than other elements in the periodic table because they are extremely difficult to produce and are both radioactive and toxic.

naturally formed - albeit briefly - during radioactive decay of other elements, the amount of francium on earth is tiny. It has been estimated that at any one time there is less than a kilogram of the ...

You're listening to Chemistry in its element brought to you by Chemistry World, the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 1871 the discoverer of the periodic table, Dimitri Mendeleev ...