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"The chemistry community is eager to see its most cherished table finally being completed down to the seventh row," Jan Reedijk, president of IUPAC's Inorganic Chemistry Division, said in the release.

The periodic table of the chemical elements is a tabular method of displaying the chemical elements, first devised in 1869 by the Russian chemist Dimitri Mendeleev. Mendeleev intended the table to ...

In this periodic table of elements quiz, you have 10 minutes to name as many elements as you can, given only their symbol, atomic weight and the broad group they live in.

Such bombs, when they detonated, further filled out the periodic table. Starting in 1952, the United States blew up hydrogen bombs around the Marshall Islands.

Periodic Table Day is celebrated every year on … well, we'll let you figure that out in the quiz just below! Plenty of folks have a fascination with the periodic table all year long.

In this video excerpt from NOVA's "Hunting the Elements," New York Times technology columnist David Pogue explores how the periodic table of elements took shape. Learn how the periodic table ...

The periodic table has four new elements named after a country, a state, and a city. See if you can pronounce them.

The perennially useful original Mendeleev periodic table has led to spinoffs, including for quantum dots. More stable nuclei are in the center, and they grow more deformed as you move outward.

Why has the periodic table endured for 150 years? It’s an amazing tool that can compress a huge amount of information into one format. It’s one of the first things people learn about chemistry.

In other words, it contains elements not on the periodic table at all. These elements would be stable around atomic number 164, which is far denser that Osmium, the densest known naturally ...