Beyond the Periodic Table’s Edge: Scientists Unravel New Chemistry for Heavy Elements
Heavy ligands such as polyoxometalates are opening a new frontier in actinide chemistry. Studying materials that are both ...
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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
This makes its behavior different from the lanthanide terbium, which is located above actinides in the periodic table. “The electronic structure calculations, as well as the experimental ...
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Scientists Discovered Promethium in 1945. They Only Just Learned What It Actually Does.
The Periodic Table of Elements is a testament to ... the team successfully demonstrated a phenomenon known as “lanthanide contraction,” which explains how as atomic numbers increase in the ...