Carbon is in group IV A of the periodic table with atomic number 6, an atomic weight of 12.011, and a density of 2.26. It melts at 3727 C. The stable form of carbon at room temperature is Graphite ...

You're listening to Chemistry in its element brought to you by Chemistry World, the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Any chemist could talk for days about carbon. It is after all an ...

The periodic table of chemical elements, often called the periodic table, organizes all discovered chemical elements in rows (called periods) and columns (called groups) according to increasing atomic ...

All life on Earth is based on the element carbon, but scientists aren’t sure what initially supplied all that carbon to our ...

For example, he argued that the place labelled as 'C' in the periodic table did not denote either diamond or graphite — the two then known allotropes of carbon — but instead carbon as the ...

Although metal ions are central to all of biochemistry, a group of elements clustered in the early part of the periodic table—carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and phosphorus—are highly represented in ...

Play this game to learn about lots of different elements in the periodic table. While you're watching, look out for where different elements are found in the periodic table. Mrs Roberts ...

Can France claim the first periodic table? Probably not, but a French Geology Professor made a significant advance towards it, even though at the time few people were aware of it. Alexandre Béguyer de ...

Our collective perception of flame is clouded. When asked to picture a flame, most people probably envision an orange streak ...

During the last week of September every year, the action in the Mediterranean’s glamorous enclave of Monte Carlo shifts to ...