The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry Joint Working Party has announced the official names and symbols of the chemical elements formerly known as 113, 115, 117 and 118. The proposed ...

This week, we meet the element lawrencium, which has the atomic symbol, Lr, and the chemical number, 103. It was named in honour of nuclear physicist Ernest O. Lawrence, who worked at the University ...

This week's chemical element is flerovium, which has the atomic symbol, Fl, and the atomic number, 114. This element, originally given the temporary name ununquadium, was formally named in 2012 for ...

One of the first things we learn in chemistry are atomic symbols to represent different elements. While what we see today has undergone transformation through the centuries, the credit for the ...

For the last fifty or so years, the periodic table has been incomplete. Elements after uranium on the periodic table have been synthesized for the past few decades, but there were always a few missing ...