Physicists have filled in some longtime blank spaces on the periodic table, calculating electron affinities of the lanthanides, a series of 15 elements known as rare earths. Physicists at Michigan ...

Last week, we explored the evolution of the periodic table, with all its elements in order. Now that we’re well-organized, let’s dive into the reasoning. * The table is generally sorted by the number ...

Periodic table is an arrangement of all known elements organized on the basis of structure and atomic number. Moving across the periodic table, one finds an increase in the number of protons. Moving ...