These rules help in identifying and writing chemical symbols consistently across all elements. The symbol serves as a shorthand notation for each element's name in formulas and equations, making ...

You may use table navigation commands for the screen reader of your choice. The Periodic Table of Elements. Each entry contains the atomic number, chemical symbol, and atomic mass to two decimal ...

The periodic table of chemical elements, often called the periodic table, organizes all discovered chemical elements in rows (called periods) and columns (called groups) according to increasing atomic ...

One of the first things we learn in chemistry are atomic symbols to represent different elements. While what we see today has undergone transformation through the centuries, the credit for the ...

For the last fifty or so years, the periodic table has been incomplete. Elements after uranium on the periodic table have been synthesized for the past few decades, but there were always a few missing ...

It happens all over the periodic table. The chemical symbol for lead is Pb. For mercury, Hg. For antimony, Sb. My chemistry teacher in high school cracked up every time she referred to the symbol for ...

It's important to use the names and chemical symbols for the first 20 elements in the periodic table, as well as the elements in groups 1 and 7.

Update: The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has confirmed the name “Copernicium” for element 112 and given it the symbol Cn. The first choice for the chemical symbol, “Cp”, was ...