You're listening to Chemistry in its element brought to you by Chemistry World, the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry. For the human brain, iron is essential yet deadly. It exists on Earth ...

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 ...

For example, the element symbol for iron is Fe, from the latin word ferrum for iron. On the periodic table, metals are found on the left and in the middle, and non-metals are on the right.

These elements are building blocks of matter and everything around us is made up of them. There are 118 elements in the periodic table, each with a unique symbol and atomic number.

But how many of these elements do you know? Test your knowledge and compete with other Live Science readers to see who can ...

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