You're listening to Chemistry in its element brought to you by Chemistry World, the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Hello, this week we're almost at the top of the periodic table because ...

The periodic table is a well-organized chart that contains all the known elements in the universe. These elements are ...

The noble gases (Helium, Neon, Argon etc ... Meyer was just four years older than Mendeleev, and produced several Periodic Tables between 1864-1870. His first table contained just 28 elements, ...

If an atom has 2 protons, that’s an atom of the element helium. If it has 7 protons, that’s nitrogen. But the logic of the periodic table also relies upon the number and organisation of electr ...

each of the elements in group 18 end with the suffix ~on, instead of the suffix for the rest of the periodic table, ~ium (helium is the exception to this rule due to historical precedent).

And generations of children have sung the words, "hydrogen and helium, lithium, beryllium..." in an attempt to memorise some of the 118 elements. This year, the periodic table of chemical elements ...

So how has the periodic table been put together ... Any letters that follow will be lower case letters, for example, helium is He. Some element symbols are simple. For example, oxygen is O.Others ...

These elements are organized in the periodic table based on their atomic numbers, which increase sequentially from 1 (Hydrogen) to 118 (Oganesson). Each element has unique chemical properties and ...