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 formula H₂O shows that water is made from two atoms of hydrogen (H) bonded to one atom of oxygen (O). Katie: Time for some science. And today it's a chemistry classic, the periodic table. And here ...

NEW YORK (AP) — You’ll soon see four new names on the periodic table of the elements, including three that honor Moscow, Japan and Tennessee. The names are among four recommended Wednesday by an ...

Today, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) began a public review of the name and symbol—nihonium and Nh—that the research group led by Kosuke Morita, Group Director of the ...

Four synthetic elements on the periodic table received their new names and atomic symbols, chemistry’s international standards organization announced Wednesday. The International Union of Pure and ...

Four new elements now have names. In December, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry officially recognized the discovery of elements 113, 115, 117 and 118, filling out the seventh row ...

Atomic Number and Mass Number of Elements: Atoms are the building blocks of matter. They are responsible for the format of all living and non-living things. Understanding their molecular structure and ...

Four new chemical elements now have official names and symbols, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) announced this week. After a five-month review, IUPAC chemists have ...

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 ...

Brian Resnick was Vox’s science and health editor and is the co-creator of Unexplainable, Vox’s podcast about unanswered questions in science. After months of suspense, the International Union of Pure ...

Last year, we asked physicsworld.com readers to submit their best names for element 112, which was discovered in 1996 by Sigurd Hofmann and his group at the Centre for Heavy Ion Research (GSI in ...