You're listening to Chemistry in its element brought to you by Chemistry World, the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry. I always find the question 'what's your favourite element' a difficult ...

But it could also be cobalt, because cobalt is used to make the blue ... In size it is much nearer to yttrium and scandium, so some versions of the Periodic Table have lutetium directly under Sc and Y ...

The periodic table is a well-organized chart that contains all the known elements in the universe. These elements are ...