The Periodic Table, first created by Dmitri Mendeleev, organizes all of the known elements in an informative array.

In this periodic table of elements quiz, you have 10 minutes to name as many elements as you can, given only their symbol, atomic weight and the broad group they live in.

Why is potassium’s symbols K? Why are the elements arranged in columns in the periodic table? What is the pattern of behavior?

Each element is not only given unique iconography in the periodic table, but each is given its own page with all of the above and other details such as symbol, melting point, boiling point ...

The elements complete the seventh row of the Periodic Table. The discoverers, who come from Japan, the United States and Russia, were given the right to propose the names and symbols.

Elements 4D combines physical and digital experiences. The actual product is a set of six wooden blocks, each engraved with periodic table symbols. Hold a tablet in front of the blocks and watch ...

All of which go to show how the periodic table of elements has become the iconic symbol of science. Mark Lorch is Professor of Science Communication and Chemistry at the University of Hull, U.K.

Michael R. Topp, professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, explains. Although some of the symbols on the periodic table may seem strange, they all make sense with a little ...

The new superheavy, radioactive elements were added to the periodic table last year but given temporary and unremarkable names: ununtrium, ununpentium, ununseptium and ununoctoium.

The elements have officially been given the atomic numbers 113, 115, 117, and 118 on the periodic table. For now they are identified by their placeholder names and temporary symbols: ununtrium ...