Chemists have recently explored protactinium's multiple resemblances to more completely understand the relationship between the transition metals and the complex chemistry of the early actinide ...

Heavier main-group elements have fundamentally different electronic properties from their lighter congeners. Until the last two decades of the twentieth century, these differences were often masked by ...

Transition metal chemistry is a vast and dynamic field that centres on the distinctive properties of elements in groups 3–12. These metals, characterised by partially filled d orbitals, exhibit a ...

Hafnium is a lustrous, silvery-gray transition metal. Discovered in 1923, it was the next-to-last element with stable nuclei to be added to the periodic table (the final one was rhenium in 1925).

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Zinc traditionally has a valence of two, meaning two electrons take part in the element's chemical reaction. A new article shows that the chemistry of zinc can be fundamentally changed, making it ...

CBSE Class 12th Chemistry Examination 2020 will be held on 7th March 2020. For the ease of students, we have provided important questions and answers for chapter d & f block elements. The students ...