Periodic Table – Royal Society of Chemistry
Interactive periodic table with information on element scarcity, discovery dates, melting and boiling points, group, block, and period.
Lead - Element information, properties and uses | Periodic Table
Element Lead (Pb), Group 14, Atomic Number 82, p-block, Mass 207.2. Sources, facts, uses, scarcity (SRI), podcasts, alchemical symbols, videos and images.
Potassium - Element information, properties and uses | Periodic …
Potassium salts in the form of saltpetre (potassium nitrate, KNO 3), alum (potassium aluminium sulfate, KAl(SO 4) 2), and potash (potassium carbonate, K 2 CO 3) have been known for …
Chlorine - Element information, properties and uses | Periodic Table
Hydrochloric acid (HCl) was known to the alchemists. The gaseous element itself was first produced in 1774 by Carl Wilhelm Scheele at Uppsala, Sweden, by heating hydrochloric acid …
Sodium - Element information, properties and uses | Periodic Table
Sodium is the sixth most common element on Earth, and makes up 2.6% of the Earth’s crust. The most common compound is sodium chloride. This very soluble salt has been leached into the …
Neon - Element information, properties and uses | Periodic Table
In 1898, William Ramsay and Morris Travers at University College London isolated krypton gas by evaporating liquid argon. They had been expecting to find a lighter gas which would fit a niche …
Aluminium - Element information, properties and uses | Periodic …
The analysis of a curious metal ornament found in the tomb of Chou-Chu, a military leader in 3 rd century China, turned out to be 85% aluminium. How it was produced remains a mystery. By …
Lithium - Element information, properties and uses | Periodic Table
The first lithium mineral petalite, LiAlSi 4 O 10, was discovered on the Swedish island of Utö by the Brazilian, Jozé Bonifácio de Andralda e Silva in the 1790s.It was observed to give an …
Manganese - Element information, properties and uses | Periodic …
Element Manganese (Mn), Group 7, Atomic Number 25, d-block, Mass 54.938. Sources, facts, uses, scarcity (SRI), podcasts, alchemical symbols, videos and images.
Phosphorus - Element information, properties and uses | Periodic …
Element Phosphorus (P), Group 15, Atomic Number 15, p-block, Mass 30.974. Sources, facts, uses, scarcity (SRI), podcasts, alchemical symbols, videos and images.