When you say a “cool” element of the periodic chart, it doesn’t necessarily mean the temperature of an element (although some elements here on this gallery may be literally “cool”). Rather, these elements are being described as amazing, awesome or “badass.” Why and how are these certain elements cool? Well, find them … Read more
If not for these famous chemists we wouldn’t have been able to reap the benefits of their discoveries, from medicines to household products to clothing to food. Here are the famous chemists and their discoveries that changed the people’s lives. During the time Frederick Gowland Hopkins was working on a research on nutrients, animals … Read more
Periodic charts are a must have in every chemistry classes. A periodic chart (or also called a periodic table) is a table of elements that are ranked according to their atomic numbers, atomic mass, chemical properties, etc. Periodic charts are also arranged by a color coding scheme to help us identify which … Read more
Interestingly, the world’s first known chemist was a woman. A cuneiform tablet from the second millennium B.C. reveals that a perfumer and palace head by the name of Tapputi infused the essences of flowers and other aromatic sources. Then she added water and then sent them back to the still (a distilling … Read more