The periodic table's latest additions finally have names of their own. Chemists officially accepted the four elements to the iconic table at the beginning of the year, but had given them place ...

Now, it seems, the entire periodic table of the elements has been scribed onto a single hair -- that of Martyn Poliakoff, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Nottingham.

A new study lays the groundwork to expand the periodic table with a search for element 120, to be made by slamming electrically charged titanium atoms, or ions, into a californium target.

The periodic table is arranged in rows and columns that group elements with similar chemical properties above and below each other. Element 119 (also known by its placeholder name, Ununennium ...

Cations and anions come in many sizes across the periodic table. Utilizing ionic properties. Ionic properties can be exploited by chemists for a range of purposes. Ion-exchange chromatography for ...

A new version of the periodic table of elements has predicted hundreds of highly charged ions that could be used to create the next generation of optical atomic clocks. The periodic table, first ...