Today the periodic table is a familiar sight in science classrooms. It takes the 118 elements that compose everything in the known universe and arranges them so that substances in any given column ...

Sir William Ramsay, the Scottish chemist who discovered several noble gases, is the subject of today’s Google doodle. The noble gases are a group of chemical elements with very low reactivity. They ...

The noble gases are the chemical elements in group 18 of the periodic table. They are the most stable due to having the maximum number of valence electrons their outer shell can hold. Therefore, they ...

Google is paying tribute to the life and research of Scottish chemist Sir William Ramsay with a Doodle on what would have been his 167th birthday. Born in Glasgow on 2 October 1852, Ramsay is best ...

Translated from the German word Edelgas, noble gases commonly refer the six elements occupying the rightmost column of the periodic table: helium, helium (He), neon (Ne), argon (Ar), krypton (Kr), ...

I entered the Yale Medical Historical Library with the smell of tert-butyl methyl ether still lingering, phantom-like, from the organic chemistry lab I had just left. Tucked away in my lab notebook ...

SCOTTISH chemist Sir William Ramsay changed the periodic table forever after he discovered a number of noble gases including helium and neon. Due to his important discoveries he was dubbed by many as ...

High-born, not like those other elements, The common riffraff, the ones All too ready to mix it up. From the right tower of the periodic table They appraise their inferiors, Arrayed in colored boxes ...

The periodic table stares down from the walls of just about every chemistry lab. The credit for its creation generally goes to Dimitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemist who in 1869 wrote out the known ...

For those of us who care about things like beauty in science, we're witnessing a special moment in periodic table history—though disenchantment will come soon enough. In April, a joint ...