Dmitri Mendeleev is known as the father of the periodic table of elements, and rightly so. He ordered the elements correctly based on their properties, which helped predict the discovery of new ...

THE periodic system of the elements, arrived at originally from the collation of facts of a chemical nature, has since been most strikingly reflected by most of the physical properties of the elements ...

Every field of science has its favorite anniversary. For physics, it’s Newton’s Principia of 1687, the book that introduced the laws of motion and gravity. Biology celebrates Darwin’s On the Origin of ...

Who made the first periodic table? Other scientists had previously identified periodicity of elements, but on March 6, 1869 Dmitri Mendeleev (photo) presented the first periodic table. Mendeleev was a ...

In nature there is an inherent complexity and inherent simplicity which paradoxically go hand in hand. The most seemingly simple of things, are often ones that least understood and are most complex.

Did you know that the Creator of the Periodic Table, Dmitir Mendeleev, predicted eight elements in his table using the prefixes which are derived from Sanskrit ? Today is his 182 nd birth anniversary ...

The covalent radius (a measure of how large individual atoms are) shows different trends if you are moving across a period or down a group. A comparison of the relative covalent radii of atoms is ...