They all have a link to the periodic table, which turned 150 in 2019! Here are some fascinating elements that you ... during the Cold War, its radioactive isotope Kr-85 was used to estimate ...

Manchester scientists have revealed how arsenic molecules might be used to ‘fish out’ the most toxic elements from radioactive nuclear waste - a breakthrough that could ... how elements like thorium ...

Eric Scerri recounts the story of element 87, which after a number of false starts was finally tracked down in France — and named in its honour. One of the most remarkable things about element ...

Beyond uranium lies a world of possibilities—elements too radioactive and unstable to ... steps of creation changed more than just the periodic table. In 1941, after Glenn Seaborg and his ...

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 ...

But there's at least one substance in the periodic table that was named in response to a nearby element ... Actually, I ought to qualify that. We all have traces of natural radioactive elements in our ...

The story of the last element to be discovered out of the first 92 catalogued in the periodic table is told by Eric ... It is unfortunate that technetium is radioactive, otherwise this method ...

This volume came from a symposium held during the 252 nd American Chemical Society National Meeting in August 2016, shortly after the completion 7th row of the periodic table. Its chapters explore the ...

How far can the periodic table go and will we ever synthesize ... a method traditionally limited to radioactive isotopes of naturally occurring elements, with a track record at specialist ...