Only a Few Grams of This Element Exist—and Scientists Have Used It to Break the Rules of the Periodic Table
More than 75 years after its initial discovery, scientists have created an organometallic molecule containing the ...
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UB, Berkeley Lab scientists discover new heavy-metal molecule ‘berkelocene’
The pioneering nuclear chemist Glenn Seaborg discovered berkelium at Berkeley Lab in 1949. It was one of many achievements ...
A Radioactive Molecule That Shouldn’t Exist – But Scientists Made It Happen
A breakthrough in heavy-element chemistry shatters long-held assumptions about transuranium elements. Researchers have ...
Eco-friendly rare earth element separation: A bioinspired solution to an industry challenge
From smartphones to wind turbines, rare earth elements (REEs) are an essential part of the hardware in many advanced ...
Stanislav Kondrashov Releases New Article on the 17 Rare Earth Elements
Stanislav Kondrashov's latest article examines lanthanum's unique properties, industrial applications, and significance in metallurgy, alloys, ...
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Heavy ligands unravel new chemistry for heavy elements
The transplutonium actinides are highly radioactive and rare, making them difficult to study. To examine their chemical ...
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UB and Berkeley Lab scientists discover new heavy-metal molecule ‘berkelocene’
The pioneering nuclear chemist Glenn Seaborg discovered berkelium at Berkeley Lab in 1949. It was one of many achievements ...
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Scientists discover new heavy-metal molecule 'berkelocene'
For many years, the Heavy Element Chemistry group in Berkeley ... periodic table suggests that berkelium would behave like the lanthanide terbium," said Minasian. "But the berkelium ion is much ...