You're listening to Chemistry in its element brought to you by Chemistry World ... It's an insidious little, I mean, heavy metal. Cadmium sits right below zinc on the periodic table and therefore ...

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 ...

Developing the periodic table The periodic table was developed by grouping elements with similar properties. This, together with a later arrangement by atomic weight, led to a repeating pattern of ...

This includes the most recently announced element of all, element 117 that was synthesised in April 2010. This podcast is about one of these elements, number 107 in the periodic table, called bohrium.