The Periodic Table, first created by Dmitri Mendeleev, organizes all of the known elements in an informative array.

Elements in the periodic table are arranged in order of increasing atomic number. The atomic number represents the number of protons in an atom's nucleus, uniquely identifying each element.

The elements complete the seventh row of the Periodic Table. The discoverers, who come from Japan, the United States and Russia, were given the right to propose the names and symbols.

Each element is not only given unique iconography in the periodic table, but each is given its own page with all of the above and other details such as symbol, melting point, boiling point ...

Four new elements have been added to the standard periodic table and their creators from Japan, Russia and the United States will now come up with permanent names and symbols for them.

In this periodic table of elements quiz, you have 10 minutes to name as many elements as you can, given only their symbol, atomic weight and the broad group they live in.

The veggie burger, for instance, has the symbol “Vb,” and can be found in the second column, where, as it happens, the alkaline earth metals would be in a real periodic table. I love this place.

All of which go to show how the periodic table of elements has become the iconic symbol of science. Mark Lorch is Professor of Science Communication and Chemistry at the University of Hull, U.K.

High school chemistry students will now have to learn about four additional elements on the Periodic Table of Elements. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) has announced ...

Now that the elements have been formally accepted to the periodic table, the next step is for the teams to recommend permanent names and symbols for their discoveries.

But the periodic table didn’t actually start with Mendeleev. Many had tinkered with arranging the elements. Decades before, chemist John Dalton tried to create a table as well as some rather ...