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Hunt for all elements lands this scientist in jail
Emmanuel Lidden from Australia took it as a real challenge: he wanted to collect all the elements of the periodic table. But ...
Only a Few Grams of This Element Exist—and Scientists Have Used It to Break the Rules of the Periodic Table
More than 75 years after its initial discovery, scientists have created an organometallic molecule containing the ...
What you need to know about rare earth minerals: “You can find them wherever you decide to look for them”
US president Donald Trump recently signed an agreement to share Ukraine’s mineral resources. Just how scarce are rare earth ...
A Sydney Man Who Wanted To ‘Collect’ The Periodic Table Is Facing Jail For Ordering Toxic Material
John Sutton described his client as an “innocent collector” and “science nerd”, claiming Lidden “did not import or possess ...
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A new iron compound hints ‘primordial’ helium hides in Earth’s core
Earth’s core could contain helium from the early solar system. The noble gas tucks into gaps in iron crystals under high pressure and temperature.
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A Radioactive Molecule That Shouldn’t Exist – But Scientists Made It Happen
A breakthrough in heavy-element chemistry shatters long-held assumptions about transuranium elements. Researchers have ...
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Scientists discover new heavy-metal molecule ‘berkelocene’
Scientists have discovered “berkelocene,” the first organometallic molecule to be characterized containing the heavy element berkelium. The breakthrough disrupts long-held theories about the chemistry ...
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From the periodic table to the food we eat: ‘Chemistry in the Kitchen’ draws students in
In the Introductory Seminar CHEM 29N: "Chemistry in the Kitchen" students learn about the chemical makeup of food.
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Only a Few Grams of This Element Exist—and Scientists Have Used It to Break the Rules of the Periodic Table
During the process, they discovered something unexpected about this particular f-block element on the periodic table that could help us understand transuranium elements more broadly as well as ...