chemical elements with a wide range of physical and chemical properties. Amongst this diversity, scientists have found it useful to apply names for various...

Chemical elements may be named from various sources: sometimes based on the person who discovered it, or the place it was discovered. Some have Latin or...

This list of chemical elements named after people includes elements named for people both directly and indirectly. Of the 118 elements, 19 are connected...

of chemical elements named after places includes elements named both directly and indirectly for places. 41 of the 118 chemical elements have names associated...

hydrogen (H) form diatomic molecules (H2). Chemical compounds are substances made of atoms of different elements; they can have molecular or non-molecular...

The abundance of the chemical elements is a measure of the occurrences of the chemical elements relative to all other elements in a given environment....

periodic table of the elements, is an ordered arrangement of the chemical elements into rows ("periods") and columns ("groups"). It is an icon of chemistry...

The discoveries of the 118 chemical elements known to exist as of 2025 are presented here in chronological order. The elements are listed generally in...

a group (also known as a family) is a column of elements in the periodic table of the chemical elements. There are 18 numbered groups in the periodic...

a periodic table of the chemical elements in 1869 based on properties that appeared with some regularity as he laid out the elements from lightest to...

The names for chemical elements in East Asian languages, along with those for some chemical compounds (mostly organic), are among the newest words to...

elements – a much earlier (1869) system of naming undiscovered elements "Element names >100". Koppenol, W. (2016). "How to name new chemical elements"...

encompass up to 96 out of the 118 known chemical elements; only mercury, lead and bismuth meet all of them. Despite this lack of agreement, the term (plural...

which are names for sets of elements based on chemical properties more so than electron configurations. Those sets have 15 elements rather than 14, extending...

alchemical substances List of chemical elements List of minerals – List of minerals with Wikipedia articles List of named alloys List of straight-chain alkanes...

article lists the etymology of chemical elements of the periodic table. Throughout the history of chemistry, many chemical elements have been discovered. In...

arrangement of the chemical elements, structured by their atomic number, electron configuration and recurring chemical properties. In the basic form, elements are...

The currently accepted names and symbols of the chemical elements are determined by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), usually...

associated periodic table of chemical elements, authors have experimented with varying types of periodic tables including for teaching, aesthetic or philosophical...

of the elements present in the compound." This is now known as the law of constant composition. Later with the advancement of methods for chemical synthesis...

Karapetoff, Vladimir (1930). "A chart of consecutive sets of electronic orbits within atoms of chemical elements". Journal of the Franklin Institute. 210 (5):...

Handbook of Chemistry (15th Edition), McGraw-Hill, 1999; Section 4; Table 4.5, Electronegativities of the Elements. L. Pauling, The Chemical Bond, Cornell...

January] 1907) was a Russian chemist known for formulating the periodic law and creating a version of the periodic table of elements. He used the periodic law not...

name by being wrongly identified with a substance André-Louis Debierne found in 1899 and called actinium. The actinide series, a set of 15 elements between...

scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make...

period 1 element is one of the chemical elements in the first row (or period) of the periodic table of the chemical elements. The periodic table is laid...

elements, or superheavies for short, are the chemical elements with atomic number greater than 104. The superheavy elements are those beyond the actinides...

period 4 element is one of the chemical elements in the fourth row (or period) of the periodic table of the chemical elements. The periodic table is laid...

is a synthetic chemical element; it has symbol Og and atomic number 118. It was first synthesized in 2002 at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research...

classifies atoms into more than a hundred chemical elements such as oxygen, iron, and mercury, which may form chemical compounds and mixtures. The modern categories...