The Periodic Table is a thing of beauty, but it can also feel pretty mysterious, especially if the last time you studied it was back in grade school. Now is a great time to get reacquainted.

Mendeleev periodic table. Mendeleev then published his periodic table of all known elements in a Russian journal and predicted several new elements to complete the table. Below you can see the table ...

That table measured 90 by 46 μm. This new table (detail in the bottom image) is just 14 by 7 μm. Richard Cousins created the periodic table and portraits using electron beam lithography.

By the periodic table’s logic, all d-block elements should have filled s orbitals. ... But Ball says there’s no reason to think one table can capture the whole picture.

In December of 2011, students presented Professor Martyn Poliakoff of the University of Nottingham with a periodic table of cupcakes for his birthday. See pictures of the event at Flickr . 9.

Since the turn of the century, six new chemical elements have been discovered and subsequently added to the periodic table of elements, the very icon of chemistry. These new elements have high ...