Chemistry Nexus
by WebElements: the periodic table on the web
Periodic table beach towel at Mount Vesuvius
Have periodic table towel will travel. That’s Mount Vesuvius in the background. Lots of chemistry in a volcano.
I rather like H where I put it (above F) in the table but you may not!
WebElements September 12th, 2018
Posted In: Chemistry
Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 names confirmed as nihonium (Nh), moscovium (Mc), tennessine (Ts), and oganesson (Og)
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) have confirmed the names of elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 as:
- Nihonium and symbol Nh, for element 113
- Moscovium and symbol Mc, for element 115
- Tennessine and symbol Ts, for element 117
- Oganesson and symbol Og, for element 118
This followed a 5-month period of public review after which the names earlier proposed by the discoverers were approved by IUPAC.
WebElements November 30th, 2016
Posted In: Chemical education, Periodic table, Radioactive elements
Why are some diamonds blue?
Wondering why the most expensive diamond ever (the Oppenheimer Blue, £35 million) is blue – it is because of boron impurities, element 5 in the periodic table.
WebElements May 19th, 2016
Posted In: Chemistry
Speculation on new element names
A panel commentary in Nature Chemistry Commentary speculates upon the names that might be proposed for the four new elements in the periodic table. Worth a read, but we’ll have to wait a while longer yet.
Abstract: “Of all the things humans can bestow names upon, new chemical elements are about the rarest. Our group of periodic table experts attempts to read the tea leaves and predict the names for elements 113, 115, 117 and 118.”
WebElements March 23rd, 2016
Posted In: Nuclear chemistry, Periodic table, Radioactive elements
Tags: Element 113, Element 115, Element 117, Element 118
How to name new elements
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) has provisional recommendations for the naming of new elements and the recommendations are open for comment until 29 February 2016.
IUPAC state “the most important change is that the names of all new elements should have an ending that reflects and maintains historical and chemical consistency. This would be in general “-ium” for elements belonging to groups 1-16, “-ine” for elements of group 17 and “-on” for elements of group 18.”
WebElements February 24th, 2016
Posted In: Chemistry
Can you make your name from the element symbols?
Can you make your name, or any other word(s) come to that, from element symbols? Find out using this MyFunStudio script.
WebElements December 10th, 2015
Posted In: Chemistry, Periodic table
Christmas Chemistry
Well it’s Christmas so here are a few Christmasy chemistry links:
WebElements December 10th, 2015
Posted In: Chemistry
Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
For those of you with access to Channel 4 in the UK, here is information about the The Royal Institution (RI) Christmas Lectures. See here for details of the 2015 lectures: how to survive in space.
Dr Kevin Fong opens a window onto today’s most exciting space missions, explores the future of space travel, and offers a unique insight into the challenges of protecting human life in the hostile environment of space in the 2015 Christmas lectures.
WebElements December 10th, 2015
Posted In: Chemical education, Chemistry, Environmental chemistry
Tags: Christmas
WebElments and interactive spectra
WebElements now has the capability for authors on the site to embed easily interactive spectra using the JSpecView applet via bbcode using jspecview tags. This is achieved by writing:[jspecview=600,400]pclanilIR.jdx[/jspecview].
The =600,400 bit gives the desired spectrum size while the file name to be displayed is included between the tags. The file is uploaded by authors who are assigned rights to upload attachments.
WebElements December 2nd, 2015
Posted In: Chemistry, Chemistry software
Interacting with molecules on the WWW
There are many chemical web pages that display chemical structures within the web page itself. You, the viewer can then rotate the molecule on screen, read off bond lengths and angles, and do other useful things. To do this, a free piece of software known as a plug-in is required. There are at least two plugins available for you to use.
WebElements December 2nd, 2015
Posted In: Chemistry