Carolyn Krause presents the second part of the three-part series on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's role in the discovery of elements in the periodic table. Many of them have been synthesized ...
Over 150 years ago, when chemist Dmitri Mendeleev was developing the very first periodic table of elements, he included several empty spaces. Mendeleev, a visionary ...
The high relative abundance of these tellurium isotopes gives tellurium the greater relative atomic mass. The atomic number of tellurium is 52 and the atomic number of iodine is 53, so these elements ...