HOUSTON—APRIL 8, 2002 — Researchers at Rice University say fluorine -- the most reactive element in nature -- could prove to be a key in unlocking the potential of carbon nanotubes and other carbon ...

Fluorine is the most chemically reactive element on the periodic table. Only one isotope of fluorine occurs naturally. Researchers discovered a new isotope with four neutrons removed from the proton ...

Exports of 12 of them are now restricted after the Ministry of Commerce added five - holmium, erbium, thulium, europium and ...

I was looking at the periodic table of the elements the other day, as one does, when my eye fell upon the right-hand side of the chart. Right next to the noble gases at the extreme edge of the table ...

China said on Thursday it planned to add five more rare earth elements and related materials to its export controls list, ...