The discoveries of the 118 chemical elements known to exist as of 2024 are presented here in chronological order. The elements are listed generally in...
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noble gas which is chemically inert and therefore does not undergo chemical reactions. The history of the discovery and use of elements began with early...
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Chemical elements may be named from various sources: sometimes based on the person who discovered it, or the place it was discovered. Some have Latin...
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Periodic table (redirect from Periodic table of the chemical elements)
periodic table of the elements, is an ordered arrangement of the chemical elements into rows ("periods") and columns ("groups"). It is an icon of chemistry...
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Chemical symbols are the abbreviations used in chemistry, mainly for chemical elements; but also for functional groups, chemical compounds, and other entities...
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This list of chemical elements named after people includes elements named for people both directly and indirectly. Of the 118 elements, 19 are connected...
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This list of chemical elements named after places includes elements named both directly and indirectly for places. 41 of the 118 chemical elements have names...
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arrangement of the chemical elements, structured by their atomic number, electron configuration and recurring chemical properties. In the basic form, elements are...
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Chemical elements that have been mistakenly "discovered". Further investigation showed that their discovery was either mistaken, that they have been mistaken...
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a periodic table of the chemical elements in 1869 based on properties that appeared with some regularity as he laid out the elements from lightest to...
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Synthetic element (redirect from Synthetic elements)
synthetic element is one of 24 known chemical elements that do not occur naturally on Earth: they have been created by human manipulation of fundamental particles...
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Oganesson (redirect from History of oganesson)
in the discovery of the heaviest elements in the periodic table. It is one of only two elements named after a person who was alive at the time of naming...
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There are currently 118 known chemical elements with a wide range of physical and chemical properties. Amongst this diversity, scientists have found it...
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The names for chemical elements in East Asian languages, along with those for some chemical compounds (mostly organic), are among the newest words to...
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The currently accepted names and symbols of the chemical elements are determined by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), usually...
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particularly in the realm of organic chemistry; the discovery of many more chemical elements and new techniques in the realm of analytical chemistry used...
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the discovery of the real elements 93 (neptunium) and 94 (plutonium), for the discovery of fission in other elements, and for the determination of the...
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Mary Elvira Weeks (redirect from Discovery of the Elements)
book Discovery of the Elements is considered the "first connected narrative of how scientists unraveled the mysteries of matter" and a "classic of chemistry"...
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Period 7 element (redirect from Period 7 elements)
period 7 element is one of the chemical elements in the seventh row (or period) of the periodic table of the chemical elements. The periodic table is laid...
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Promethium (redirect from History of promethium)
one of the only two radioactive elements that are followed in the periodic table by elements with stable forms, the other being technetium. Chemically, promethium...
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A chemical formula is a way of presenting information about the chemical proportions of atoms that constitute a particular chemical compound or molecule...
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Dubnium (redirect from History of dubnium)
of the chemical elements] (in German). Urania. Ghiorso, A.; Seaborg, G. T.; Oganessian, Yu. Ts.; et al. (1993). "Responses on the report 'Discovery of...
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Meitnerium (redirect from History of meitnerium)
transactinide element. It is a member of the 7th period and is placed in the group 9 elements, although no chemical experiments have yet been carried out...
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Seaborgium (redirect from History of seaborgium)
6. The chemical properties of seaborgium are characterized only partly, but they compare well with the chemistry of the other group 6 elements. In 1974...
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article lists the etymology of chemical elements of the periodic table. Throughout the history of chemistry, many chemical elements have been discovered. In...
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The Elements (Greek: Στοιχεῖα Stoikheîa) is a mathematical treatise consisting of 13 books attributed to the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid c. 300...
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Element collecting (redirect from Chemical element collecting)
collecting is the hobby of collecting the chemical elements. Many element collectors simply enjoy finding peculiar uses of chemical elements. Others enjoy studying...
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Tennessine (redirect from History of tennessine)
chemical element; it has symbol Ts and atomic number 117. It has the second-highest atomic number and joint-highest atomic mass of all known elements...
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Timeline of scientific discoveries Timeline of atomic and subatomic physics Timeline of chemical elements discoveries Timeline of chemistry Timeline of crystallography...
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Lawrencium (redirect from History of lawrencium)
is a synthetic chemical element; it has symbol Lr (formerly Lw) and atomic number 103. It is named after Ernest Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron, a...
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