In this video excerpt from NOVA's "Hunting the Elements," New York Times technology columnist David Pogue examines how atomic structure determines reactivity. Meet Theo Gray, chemist and author ...

Atomic symbol (on the Periodic Table of Elements): Ne Atomic weight (average mass of the atom): 20.1797 Density: 0.0008999 grams per cubic centimeter Phase at room temperature: Gas ...

4. It's pulled out of the air. Neon is one of the most abundant elements in the universe. Stars produce it, and it’s one of the components of solar wind. It's also found in the lunar atmosphere.

Milestone in chemical studies of superheavy elements: Superheavy element and carbon atom bonded for first time Date: September 19, 2014 Source: Universität Mainz Summary: A chemical bond between ...

(This video is no longer available for streaming.) Chemical elements are the fundamental building blocks of nature, and while most of them—carbon, copper, iron, neon, etc.—were born within ...

An international team of physicists and chemists reports in Nature 1 that it takes very little energy to strip an electron out of an atom of lawrencium, element 103. The measurement is a tour de ...