Innovative X-ray technique offers fresh insights into actinide bonding properties
An international team of researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has developed a new method for analyzing ...
Germanium detectors help physicists unlock the mysteries of the universe
Ever since physicist Ernest Rutherford discovered the atomic nucleus in 1911, studying its structure and behavior has ...
Metals Crucial to Clean Energy Are Getting Caught Up in the US–China Trade War
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 ...
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Rubidium Can Be More Than a Lithium Cast-Off
Lithium has been the apple of the mining industry’s eye as demand for electric vehicle batteries has skyrocketed. Now, the ...
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20 Years of Discovery: How Has the Periodic Table Changed Over Time?
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 ...
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Japan races to stake its claim on element 119
Riken chose the curium-vanadium pair because both elements are easy to manipulate ... But by pushing the limits of the periodic table, researchers hope to better understand the nature of atoms and ...
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How Japan took the lead in the race to discover element 119
The periodic table looks complete ... its collaborators have used only one combination of nuclei—curium-248 and vanadium-51—while the JINR and the Institute of Modern Physics of the Chinese ...