Figure 1: The generation of a cation. Credit: Technology Networks. Elements in group 18 of the periodic table – the “noble gases”, tend not to form ions due to the arrangement of their electrons which ...

A new study lays the groundwork to expand the periodic table with a search for element 120, to be made by slamming electrically charged titanium atoms, or ions, into a californium target.

A new version of the periodic table of elements has predicted hundreds of highly charged ions that could be used to create the next generation of optical atomic clocks. The periodic table ...

A computer graphic shows how the collision of calcium ions and berkelium atoms produces ... The scientific body in charge of chemistry’s periodic table has verified the discoveries of four ...

After counting how many lawrencium ions tumbled out ... that lawrencium shouldn’t be in the third column of the periodic table. That column sits in a region of the table known as the d-block ...

Until now, these elements had temporary names and symbols on the periodic table as their existence was ... a thin layer of bismuth with zinc ions travelling at about 10% the speed of light.” ...

Elements in group 18 of the periodic table – the “noble gases”, tend not to form ions due to the arrangement of their electrons which makes them generally unreactive. Ionic properties can be exploited ...