Atoms are the smallest particle of an element that can exist, and can be regarded as the building blocks of everything. Atoms can combine to form molecules. Molecules are the smallest particle of ...

The questions in this quiz are suitable for GCSE chemistry students studying early ideas about atoms, the structure of the atom, atomic number and mass number. If you struggled with the quiz, don't ...

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When elements combine or join together new substances are formed. These substances are called compounds. This is shown in the diagram below There are millions of different compounds and all of them ...

As though it wasn’t hard enough to memorize the names and atomic weights of 117 elements in the periodic table, scientists have now confirmed a new one. Researchers from Lund University in Sweden ...

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are credited in the discovery of 16 of the 118 known elements. Now they’ve completed the crucial first ...