Have you ever wondered if the names of elements are the same in other languages? Different languages have different words for the same thing, why should the elements be any different? This table is a list of the elements in English and German arranged by atomic number. If you’d like […]
Daily Archives: October 2, 2014

October 2 is Sir William Ramsay’s birthday. Ramsay was a Scottish chemist who was responsible for discovering the elements that make up most of the right-hand edge of the periodic table–the noble gases. Ramsay collaborated with Lord Rayleigh who had noticed a difference in density between nitrogen obtained from the air […]