When one does my job(s), and one writes the kind of stuff that I write, the question of what my favorite element might be comes up a lot - quite a...
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Chemical Elements
Four new elements, as predicted
IUPAC's confirmation of four new elements, 113, 115, 117 and 118, was announced a couple of days ago with very little fanfare, and in the process,...
Science On Tap #dingleelements
Here's the Slide Deck form last night's #dingleelements Science on Tap Talk at National Mechanics here in Philadelphia. . @adchempages...
Chemistry Venn’s
Today is the 180th birthday of John Venn, the Englishman who invented the Venn diagram. Today's Google Doodle celebrates this fact. This led me to...
4s & 3d, 3d & 4s, Cu & Cr, sloppy Aufbau & Eric Scerri!
Yeah, that's an inelegant title to say the least, but behind it is an elegant piece of chemistry that is struggling to get recognition. Yesterday I...
Those confounded names and symbols!
Zach Weiner takes on the elements and the stress of the chemistry test in this, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Strip. Whilst reading Weiner's...