Heavy metals get a bad rap. For the most part, it is deserved because they are usually toxic. Except when they aren't. You ...

The reactivity series is a list that shows the order of reactivity of some common metals. Calcium (Ca) Reacts vigorously with strong heating. Brick red flame observed and white solid formed. 2Ca + O 2 ...

The discovery of graphene—a one-atom-thick sheet of covalently bonded carbon atoms—inspired the research community to generate a variety of 2D materials. Graphene, MoS 2, the silicon equivalent of ...

Figure 2: Appearance of Mn–porphyrins at the solid/liquid interface. Figure 1: Possible pathways and states of the manganese centre of Mn-porphyrins during their reaction with O 2 or with the single ...

It’s a helpful rule of thumb: Main group elements prefer forming bonds that give them eight valence electrons; transition metals go for 18 electrons. Now scientists have shown that main group elements ...

A pair of diamonds that formed hundreds of kilometers deep in Earth’s malleable mantle both contain specks of materials that ...