Monthly Archives: August 2014








Periodic Table-Metals 2017
The elements of the periodic table can be broken into three different groups: Metals, Metalloids, and Nonmetals. This periodic table shows the three different groups of elements. The metalloid group separates the metals from the nonmetals. Elements to the left are metals and nonmetals are to the right. The exception is […]

Metals, Metalloids and Nonmetals




Antoine Lavoisier
August 26 is Antoine Lavoisier’s birthday. Lavoisier was the French chemist considered the Father of Modern Chemistry. Lavoisier was the man largely responsible for guiding chemistry from the hands of alchemists and into a scientific discipline. Prior to Lavoisier, those that studied chemical properties still worked under assumptions passed on […]

Today In Science History – August 26 – Antoine Lavoisier