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 ...
Named for a fire god, radioactive element at ORNL could now 'rewrite chemistry textbooks'
Oak Ridge National Laboratory discovered a rare radioactive element called promethium. Nearly 80 years later, scientists have ...
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 ...
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In an advance for promethium production, researchers get a new view of the element’s properties
Promethium’s short half-life and lack of stable isotopes makes it difficult to study. In addition, promethium is difficult to ...
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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
Understanding the atomic behavior of transuranium elements can help ... different from the lanthanide terbium, which is located above actinides in the periodic table. “The electronic structure ...
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UB and Berkeley Lab scientists discover new heavy-metal molecule ‘berkelocene’
It was one of many achievements related to transuranium elements that led to his winning ... Traditional understanding of the periodic table suggests that berkelium would behave like the lanthanide ...
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UB, Berkeley Lab scientists discover new heavy-metal molecule ‘berkelocene’
It was one of many achievements related to transuranium elements that led to his winning ... Traditional understanding of the periodic table suggests berkelium would behave like the lanthanide terbium ...