The Elements Collection on Kickstarter is seeking your backing and a Guinness World record for being the metallic alloy containing the most elements ever. Freelancer Michael Franco writes about the ...

(Nanowerk News) Imagine an alien world with oceans of liquid metal. If such a world exists, metallic elements are likely the sources of the dissolved materials and particles in these oceans.

Rare earth elements (REEs) are a group of 17 metallic elements essential in many modern technologies. Despite their name, they are not actually rare, but they are difficult to extract and refine. In ...

A team of researchers at UNIST, in collaboration with the University of Cologne and Purdue University, has unveiled a rapid, sustainable method to create complex nanomaterials containing up to 30 ...

SINCE the discovery of the transuranic elements, a consistent method of naming the newly discovered metallic elements has been adopted. All these new elements have been given names ending in “-ium”.

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In its purest form, iron is neither exceptionally strong nor hard - in fact, a block of pure iron could be cut with a knife. The addition of carbon and the removal of oxygen are what give iron-based ...

Californium is a synthetic, radioactive element not found in nature. It is an actinide: one of 15 radioactive, metallic elements found at the bottom of the periodic table. The pure metal is ...

Rare earth elements are a group of 17 metallic elements that are crucial components in electronics, electric vehicles, renewable energy technologies and semiconductors. But resources are concentrated ...

THIS is a handbook on the Practical Chemistry of the Non-metallic Elements, designed to meet the requirements of pupils of Mechanics' Institutions, and of Science Classes of a similar kind. The true ...