Penguin Press; 2010. The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World From the Periodic Table of Elements. By Sam Kean. Little, Brown and Company ...

and a fair bit of toxic gas. On the floor, there will be some soot, rust, and metals. The main reason for the molecule falling apart is that a lot of the heavier elements are not stable.

The asteroid — named after the Greek muse of sacred hymns — is so dense that researchers theorize that it may be made up of elements not contained on the periodic table. The idea that some ...

Metal elements ... in AOAC Table 2015.01F. Figure 4. CCV recoveries over an 8-hour run of food samples. Image Credit: PerkinElmer The NexION ICP-MS was used to validate the method outlined in AOAC ...

Naturally occurring superheavy elements beyond those listed in the periodic table could potentially explain why asteroid 33 Polyhymnia is so dense, new research suggests. A handful of asteroids in ...

Carolyn Krause presents the second part of the three-part series on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's role in the discovery of elements in the periodic table. Many of them have been synthesized ...