Click to legibilize. A periodic table showing where the discoveries of the different elements were carried out. Photo: Jamie Gallagher In this wonderful riff on the periodic table, science ...
Chemists familiar with the history of the periodic table may be aware that Dmitri Mendeleev gave the prefixes eka, dvi, and tri (Sanskrit for “one,” “two,” and “three”) to eight then-unknown elements.
This year is the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements—and today (March 6), the modern version celebrates its 150 th birthday. To find out more about the table and how new ...