BBC2 年
Developing the periodic table
The element germanium was discovered in 1886. Its properties were similar to the predicted ones of Mendeleev’s ‘eka-silicon’. The periodic table is a good example of how scientific ideas ...
BBC2 年
Developing the periodic table
The element germanium was discovered in 1886. Its properties were similar to the predicted ones of Mendeleev’s ‘eka-silicon’. The periodic table is a good example of how scientific ideas ...
Royal Society of Chemistry11 年
Chemistry in its element: silicon
Why silicon? Well, it is often said that elements close to each other in the periodic table share similar properties and so, seduced by the age-old red herring that "carbon is the element of life", ...