table of elements

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It has long held a spot on the periodic table of elements, but has remained under the radar despite its use in military systems, self-driving vehicles and fast chargers for laptops.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

Since the turn of the century, six new chemical elements have been discovered and subsequently added to the periodic table of elements, the very icon of chemistry.

From Science Daily • Feb. 13, 2024

A chapter on the periodic table of elements has been removed from the syllabus for class-10 students, who are typically 15–16 years old.

From Scientific American • Jun. 1, 2023

He wrote an entire song based on the periodic table of elements, which includes this verse:

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2023

Transliterate them into Roman alphabet spellings and Arabic numerals, and somewhere, somebody would spot each numerical significance, as Hubert Penrose and Mort Tranter and she had done with the table of elements.

From Omnilingual by Freas, Kelly