Everything we can see and touch, and quite a lot that we can’t as well, is made of tiny particles called atoms. Some substances, like particles of this iron, contain only one kind of atom. Iron is an ...
Students learn to classify matter as elements, compounds, and mixtures. Matter: Classification of Matter: Students learn to classify matter as elements, compounds, and mixtures and to distinguish ...
Actinides are a group of heavy, radioactive elements that include uranium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium and ...
Scientists have found the first case of an ionic crystal consisting of just one chemical element -- boron. This is the densest and hardest known phase of this element. The new phase turned out to be a ...
THE merits of a book on atomic and molecular structure can be judged by a very simple test. If the book merely gives an account of the personal views and impressions of the author, in the form of a ...
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