Rhenium and technetium not only share the same group in the periodic table, but also have some common history relating to how they were — or indeed weren't — discovered. Eric Scerri explains.

Instead they proposed bohrium, which became the officially recognised name in 1997. In the periodic table bohrium lies below chromium, technetium and rhenium in group 6. However, the application of ...

43 spot on the periodic table. However, none of the other scientists ... that was similar in nature to nipponium and named it rhenium. And that was actually what Ogawa had discovered.

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