The periodic table is a wonderful structure. In its neat, ordered way, it predicts the behaviour of atoms as they follow a step-by-step pattern of increasing atomic number. At first glance, it's a ...

Rutherfordium, the 104th element on the periodic table, was first synthesized artificially ... As expected for a heavier molecule, hafnium chloride was found to be less volatile than zirconium ...

Show more In the final programme in our Elements series, Justin Rowlatt looks at the rarest and oddest members of the periodic table. Selenium, bismuth, molybdenum, antimony, rhenium, hafnium ...