Neptunium, element 93 on the periodic table of elements, was the first transuranium element to be produced synthetically and the first actinide series transuranium element to be discovered. Its ...

Greenland is one of the nations being explored for rare earth deposits. Small pieces of ice float in the water in the country’s Nuuk Fjord. During the 1940s the Manhattan Project adapted the methods ...

Hafnium is a lustrous, silvery-gray transition metal. Discovered in 1923, it was the next-to-last element with stable nuclei to be added to the periodic table (the final one was rhenium in 1925).

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Background Plants that accumulate metal and metalloid trace elements to extraordinarily high concentrations in their living biomass have inspired much research worldwide during the last decades.

Fans are calling for a newly discovered heavy metal to be named after late Motorhead leader Lemmy – and judging by this, he’d fit right in... To many it’s the baffling wall chart you stared at in ...

Dec 28 (Reuters) - China said it would cut its export quotas for rare earth minerals more than 11 percent in the first half of 2011, further shrinking supplies of metals needed to make a range of high ...