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 ...

A research team at King’s College London has isolated a triangular aluminum compound, called a cyclotrialumane, that can ...

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 ...

In this episode Dr Sunayana Bhargava and Tulela Pea talk about the building blocks of all matter: atoms. They also discuss how they combine in different ways to make molecules, compounds and mixtures.

You may have noticed that the rock formations are very different colors. The rock formations on the left are from Red Rock State Park in Texas, and on the right is El Capitan Mountain in Yosemite ...

Electrons in a pure-carbon material display properties that are reminiscent of those in heavy-element compounds. A model inspired by this link hints at how a single-element material can exhibit ...

Heavier main-group elements have fundamentally different electronic properties from their lighter congeners. Until the last two decades of the twentieth century, these differences were often masked by ...

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