You're listening to Chemistry in its element brought to you by Chemistry World, the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Any chemist could talk for days about carbon. It is after all an ...

The stunning estimate offers hope that natural ecosystems in pan-tropical forests could help humans control global warming.

The periodic table captures a subtle pattern that runs ... If you have 12 protons, that’s carbon. As you keep adding protons, you find that similar properties recur in every 8th element.

The carbon dioxide molecules each have one black ... The non-metal elements are found on the right-hand side of the periodic table, and metals on the left and in the middle. Thermal decomposition ...

The atomic number of tellurium is 52 and the atomic number of iodine is 53, so these elements are in the correct order in the modern periodic table.

The “lead” of a pencil is actually made of a substance called graphite which is made of carbon atoms. The picture shows a close-up of one carbon atom. A hydrogen atom has one proton as the nucleus and ...

Is the periodic table hanging in your lab, classroom, or office woefully out of date ... In 1946, Willard Libby proposed an innovative method for dating organic materials by measuring their content of ...

Keeping up with the neighbours is rarely a concern in the periodic table. Nitrogen doesn't care much what carbon and oxygen are up to, and rarely casts covetous glances at phosphorous. But there's at ...