Beyond the Periodic Table’s Edge: Scientists Unravel New Chemistry for Heavy Elements
Heavy ligands such as polyoxometalates are opening a new frontier in actinide chemistry. Studying materials that are both ...
Only a Few Grams of This Element Exist—and Scientists Have Used It to Break the Rules of the Periodic Table
More than 75 years after its initial discovery, scientists have created an organometallic molecule containing the transuranium element berkelium. According to a new study, the electronic signature of ...
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Scientists discover new heavy-metal molecule 'berkelocene'
A heavy metal molecule with Berkeley roots Berkelium is one of 15 actinides in the periodic table's f-block. One row above the actinides are the lanthanides. The pioneering nuclear chemist Glenn ...
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Only a Few Grams of This Element Exist—and Scientists Have Used It to Break the Rules of the Periodic Table
During the process, they discovered something unexpected about this particular f-block element on the periodic table that could help us understand transuranium elements more broadly as well as ...
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Scientists discover new heavy-metal molecule 'berkelocene'
Berkelium is one of 15 actinides in the periodic table's f-block. One row above the actinides are the lanthanides. The pioneering nuclear chemist Glenn Seaborg discovered berkelium at Berkeley Lab in ...