Actinides are a group of heavy, radioactive elements that include uranium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium and ...

Everything we can see and touch, and quite a lot that we can’t as well, is made of tiny particles called atoms. Some substances, like particles of this iron, contain only one kind of atom. Iron is an ...

Scientists have found the first case of an ionic crystal consisting of just one chemical element -- boron. This is the densest and hardest known phase of this element. The new phase turned out to be a ...

X-ray microanalysis is an analytical technique that provides immense possibilities to extend beyond high resolution mapping of elements. Speed and precision are the real powers of X-ray microanalysis, ...

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