Elements and Compounds: Understanding elements and compounds is basic knowledge to study chemistry. Elements are the basic building blocks of matter, while compounds are substances formed when two or ...

David Cole-Hamilton – previously president of EuChemS – explains why we need to be mindful of many of the elements as a limited resource. The periodic table allows us to understand chemistry at a ...

Everything we can see and touch, and quite a lot that we can’t as well, is made of tiny particles called atoms. Some substances, like particles of this iron, contain only one kind of atom. Iron is an ...

On a stage in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization headquarters in Paris, Yuri Oganessian holds a microphone in one hand and a small remote control in the other. Over ...

Conventional alloys have one principal element, with minor modifications achieved by adding relatively small amounts of other elements. As many as a dozen other elements may be added, but conventional ...

Neutron activation analysis (NAA) is a sensitive multi-elemental analytical technique, and nuclear process, that is used to determine the concentration of a range of trace elements. It is a technique ...