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Our modern lives depend on rare earth elements, and someday soon we may not have enough to meet growing demand. Because of their special properties, these 17 metallic elements are crucial ingredients ...

Four new elements now have names. In December, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry officially recognized the discovery of elements 113, 115, 117 and 118, filling out the seventh row ...

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There are 17 rare earth elements on the periodic table, but a better name for them would be the "troublesome earths." Here's why. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Four new elements have four new names: nihonium, moscovium, tennessine and oganesson. These names correspond to elements 113, 115, 117 and 118, which scientists announced they had found in January, ...

NASA and JAXA’s XRISM mission detected chlorine and potassium in Cassiopeia A, revealing how supernovae forge life-essential ...

A century and a half ago, a Russian chemistry professor published a classification of all the known elements, organized by atomic weight. Today, the system that he created for his students — plus some ...

These days, we would call them proprietary blends. But in the late 1500s and early 1600s, individual alchemists called the ...

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