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Australian "Science Nerd" Trying To Collect Every Element May Be Jailed After Reaching Plutonium
An Australian man described as a "science nerd" may face jail time, after attempting to collect all the elements in the ...
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Patterns and trends in the periodic table
As you move down a group in the periodic table, the covalent radius increases ... screen or shield the outer electrons from the nuclear charge.
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New Heavy Metal Molecule Could Reveal What Goes on Inside Nuclear Waste
Since it was first synthesized in a post-WW2 American lab in 1949, berkelium has been a rebel of the periodic table, defying ...
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UB, Berkeley Lab scientists discover new heavy-metal molecule ‘berkelocene’
The pioneering nuclear chemist Glenn Seaborg discovered berkelium at Berkeley Lab in 1949. It was one of many achievements ...
Only a Few Grams of This Element Exist—and Scientists Have Used It to Break the Rules of the Periodic Table
During the process, they discovered something unexpected about this particular f-block element on the periodic table that could help us understand ... it has a tetravalent oxidation state (a positive ...
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Only a Few Grams of This Element Exist—and Scientists Have Used It to Break the Rules of the Periodic Table
During the process, they discovered something unexpected about this particular f-block element on the periodic table that could ... oxidation state (a positive charge of +4) that’s stabilized ...