All Isotopes articles – Page 2

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    Elements

    Lithium

    2012-11-01T00:00:00Z

    John Emsley investigates the element that is the lightest of metals and celebrated in song

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    Resource

    On This Day - Feb 18 : Introduction of isotope

    British chemist Frederick Soddy coined the term isotope (from the Greek, meaning ‘in the same place’) to describe different elements that can be chemically indistinguishable but have different atomic weights and characteristics.

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    News

    Periodic table of the isotopes launched by IUPAC

    2011-09-01T00:00:00Z

    IUPAC has launched a new periodic table which emphasises isotopic composition

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    Feature

    Ida Noddack and the missing elements

    2009-03-01T00:00:00Z

    Distinguished women chemists were rare in the early 20th century, but their contributions to chemistry are of great significance. Ida Noddack's scientific career centred around her intensive study of the Periodic Table, and resulted in her discovery, with husband Walter Noddack and physicist Otto Berg, of the metal rhenium, and of nuclear fission in the search for element 93.