The Periodic Table of Elements, created primarily by the Russian chemist Dmitry Mendeleev (1834-1907), celebrated its 150th anniversary last year. Its importance as an organization theory of chemistry will be difficult to understand – all emerging chemists are familiar with it from an early stage of their education. Given the …
Read More »This strange rock glowed naturally in the dark, and now scientists have figured out how.
The mineral hackmanite (or tenacious sodalite) is an amazing natural phenomenon that has long been a mystery to scientists – even though we can now engineer synthetic materials that glow in the dark more effectively than anything in nature. Geologists first described the mineral in the 1800s, with its tendency …
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