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 ...

The stunning estimate offers hope that natural ecosystems in pan-tropical forests could help humans control global warming.

This volume came from a symposium held during the 252 nd American Chemical Society National Meeting in August 2016, shortly after the completion 7th row of the periodic table. Its chapters explore the ...

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 ...

Other compounds are made from different combinations of atoms, like water… carbon dioxide ... but these elements cannot be seen in this version of the periodic table. Scientists Marie and ...

Silicon (Si) is a metalloid, element number 14 on the periodic table. Like carbon, silicon has four bonding sites, but silicon is more than twice as heavy as carbon. The high melting point of ...

You're listening to Chemistry in its element brought to you by Chemistry World, the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Keeping up with the neighbours is rarely a concern in the periodic table ...