Lithium and other elements that the U.S. needs for vital defense, energy and other applications could become harder to obtain if the Trump administration goes ahead with tariffs and other ...

Ever since physicist Ernest Rutherford discovered the atomic nucleus in 1911, studying its structure and behavior has ...

Rubies and emeralds have the colors they do because, like many substances, they absorb some colors of light. Most visible light, like sunlight, is composed of all the colors of the rainbow: red, ...

Neo recycles a few dozen tons of high-purity gallium a year, mostly from semiconductor chip manufacturing scrap, at a factory in Ontario, Canada. In North America, it’s the only industrial-scale ...

Anthony Albanese said Donald Trump is considering giving Australia an exemption to the his recently announced 25 per cent tax ...

On 17 February 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev jotted down the symbols for the chemical elements, putting them in order according to their atomic weights and inventing the periodic table.

The modern periodic table, arranged in rows and columns, was first introduced by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869. At the time, it included the known elements and their properties, but Mendeleev predicted ...

After a Chinese export ban, can America get gallium and germanium from Canada — or will tariffs get in the way?

Canada retaliated, but a last-minute deal delayed enforcement by 30 days. If implemented, U.S. aluminium supply will tighten as Canadian exports shift to Europe, while alternative sources from the ...

Each aluminum ion is surrounded by six oxygen ions ... those colors using an endless variety of complex structures made with the elements in the periodic table. Got a question? Put a reporter on it.

LONDON: Goldman Sachs Group Inc is raising its price forecasts for aluminium, saying higher demand in Europe and China could lead to supply shortages. The metal will probably average US$3,125 ...