The heavy metal uranium is, besides its radioactive reputation, known for its intricate chemistry and diverse bonding behaviors. Now, an international team of scientists have utilized synchrotron ...

Francium — the 87th element on the periodic table — is a naturally occurring, but incredibly rare, radioactive element. It forms and decays extremely quickly, so it has no practical uses, and ...

Unravelling the atomic and nuclear structure of the heaviest elements Date: February 22, 2017 Source: KU Leuven Summary: Little is known about the heaviest, radioactive elements in Mendeleev's table.

Measurements of an artificial radioactive element called lawrencium could revive an arcane controversy over the element’s position in the periodic table — and the structure of the table itself ...

A t the far end of the periodic table is a realm where nothing is quite as it should be. The elements here, starting at atomic number 104 (rutherfordium), have never been found in nature. In fact ...

Predictive power. Gallium. Mendeleev left blank spaces in his original periodic table so that he could properly line up the known elements. Gallium, element 31, was his first gap to be filled, in ...

New data on lawrencium, element 103, trigger rethink of periodic table. Skip ... of the fleeting radioactive ... strip an atom of its most weakly bound electron —hints at how that ...