One feature of compounds made with transition metals is their intense colour. There are many examples in nature, including gemstones and paint pigments. Even the colour of blood comes from the protein ...
Both rubies and emeralds are minerals, which is a type of rock with a consistent chemical composition and a highly ordered ...
Even though emeralds and rubies are very different colors, they both have the same secret ingredient in their atomic structure.
The electron configurations of the 3rd period d-block elements are shown below: The electron configurations for chromium and copper seem anomalous as the 4s orbital is not doubly occupied. However, we ...
Rubies and emeralds have the colors they do because, like many substances, they absorb some colors of light. Most visible light, like sunlight, is composed of all the colors of the rainbow: red, ...
The new era of nuclear power generation greater than the force of the Sun has arrived and is ready for deployment. For the ...
They are seeking good fortune in their hunt for an elusive entity: element 119. The periodic table looks complete, but it isn’t. The race is on to discover the table’s next row of elements ...
A new method pioneered to optimally cook both the yolk and white (or albumen) of a boiled chicken egg has been published in ...
On 17 February 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev jotted down the symbols for the chemical elements, putting them in order according to their atomic weights and inventing the periodic table.