You're listening to Chemistry in its element brought to you by Chemistry World, the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Any chemist could talk for days about carbon. It is after all an ...

Carbon is in group IV A of the periodic table with atomic number 6, an atomic weight of 12.011, and a density of 2.26. It melts at 3727 C. The stable form of carbon at room temperature is Graphite ...

You interact with about two-thirds of the elements of the periodic table every day. Some, like carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen, make up our bodies and the air we breathe. Yet there is also a class of ...

Watch this video to find out more information on the periodic table close periodic tableA table which lists all of the chemical elements and arranges them in a way that is useful. It allows us to ...

The periodic table captures a subtle pattern that runs ... If you have 12 protons, that’s carbon. As you keep adding protons, you find that similar properties recur in every 8th element.

These are almost one-quarter of the periodic table and are mainly found in the first four periods. Of these, 11 are essential elements that our bodies need in larger amounts: oxygen, carbon ...

If your first reaction when thinking about the periodic table relates to Mr. White’s chemistry class in “Breaking Bad,” let’s ...

As part of the ChemClub's 10 th Anniversary (2015-2016), we asked clubs to create elements of the periodic table featuring a mole. To celebrate the International Year of the Periodic Table (IYPT) in ...

Finding Volume—The Water Displacement Method The chart shows that atomic size and mass for the first 20 elements in the periodic table. The size of the atoms and their mass has a lot to do with the ...

Keeping up with the neighbours is rarely a concern in the periodic table. Nitrogen doesn't care much what carbon and oxygen are up to, and rarely casts covetous glances at phosphorous. But there's at ...

According to a new study, the carbon atoms that form part of all life on Earth may have traveled outside the galaxy first.