Rhenium is element 75 in the periodic table and in many ways a rather unusual element. It is one of the rarest elements on the Earth with an abundance of something like 1 part per million. It is also ...

Rhenium and technetium not only share the same group in the periodic table, but also have some common history relating to how they were — or indeed weren't — discovered. Eric Scerri explains.

Instead they proposed bohrium, which became the officially recognised name in 1997. In the periodic table bohrium lies below chromium, technetium and rhenium in group 6. However, the application of ...

Show more In the final programme in our Elements series, Justin Rowlatt looks at the rarest and oddest members of the periodic table. Selenium, bismuth, molybdenum, antimony, rhenium, hafnium ...

Nihonium (Nh), a radioactive synthetic element, joined the periodic table of elements in November ... similar in nature to nipponium and named it rhenium. And that was actually what Ogawa had ...