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Properties of the main groups of elements
The elements in group 1 are known as alkali metals. They react rapidly (very fast) with water, producing an alkaline solution and hydrogen gas. The metals become more reactive as you go down the ...
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Metals and non-metals
The position of an element on the periodic table provides information about its properties. The majority of elements are metals and they are found on the left and in the middle of the periodic table.
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The Elements of Steel
Iron is the main ingredient in various forms of iron and steel, but the various types of metals contain other elements as well. Sometimes these elements are unwanted; other times they're ...
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Periodic Table of Chemical Elements
The periodic table’s arrangement also allows scientists to discern trends in element properties, including electronegativity, ionization energy, and atomic radius. Many scientists worked on the ...
Where should we look for new metals critical for green energy technology? Volcanoes may point the way
About 400 kilometers northwest of Sydney, just south of Dubbo, lies a large and interesting body of rock formed around 215 ...
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In a first, rare earth metals’ magnetic properties changed using X-ray lasers
The magnetic properties of rare-earth elements are decided by the activity ... However, “Excitations of 4f electronic states in rare-earth (RE) metals have not been considered to contribute ...