Mount Madonna Students Build Sweet Periodic Table of Elements

Periodic Table

GaplekNews--One way to get students to remember the Periodic Table of Elements is to turn it into the Periodic Table of Cupcakes.

PeNew periodic table element names confirmed, textbook makers sigh in relief

Periodic Table

GaplekNews--What's in a name? If you're the general assembly of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, then quite a lot. It's that bunch who have finally rubber-stamped the names of elements Darmstadtium (110), Roentgenium (111) and Copernicum (112) on the Periodic table. The trio are so named in honor of Darmstadt (where it was first created), Wilhelm Röntgen (discoverer of X-Rays) and Nicolaus Copernicus (explaining the universe since 1533).

Periodic table adds three super-heavy elements

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GaplekNews--The periodic table -- that biblical graph of chemical elements and a stalwart resident of classroom walls -- just got three boxes bigger. The General Assembly of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) has approved the names of three new elements.