These rules help in identifying and writing chemical symbols consistently across all elements. The symbol serves as a shorthand notation for each element's name in formulas and equations, making ...

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 ...

Creating mnemonic phrases can help you remember the order of elements, especially for the first 20 elements or specific groups. These phrases are general and are available on other free online sources ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., June 8, 2016 -- The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Inorganic Chemistry Division has published a Provisional Recommendation for the names and symbols of the ...

The periodic table's latest additions finally have names of their own. Chemists officially accepted the four elements to the iconic table at the beginning of the year, but had given them place holder ...

The seventh row of the periodic table is officially full. On December 30, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced that a Russian-U.S. collaboration had attained sufficient ...

Welcome to the world, elements 113, 115, 117 and 118! Four new elements will join more than a hundred others on the periodic table of the elements, the International Union of Pure and Applied ...

Earlier this year, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) accepted the evidence that indicated we had produced four new elements, filling out the bottom row of the periodic ...

The chemical symbol for oxygen is O. Makes sense. Calcium gets repped by a Ca. Sounds good. Hydrogen? H. Cobalt? Co. Lithium? Li. With you so far. Lead? Pb. There are actually a few things that help ...

This New Year brings with it new elements to the periodic table. The global organization which oversees these sorts of chemical developments announced Monday that it has confirmed the discovery of ...