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 ...

Vol. 73, No. 5, Proceedings of the 2004 Biennial Meeting of The Philosophy of Science AssociationPart II: Symposia PapersEdited by Miriam Solomon (December 2006), pp. 864-875 (12 pages) In this ...

Inorganic elements and their compounds are fundamental to medical biochemistry, serving as essential cofactors in enzymatic reactions, regulators of cellular signalling and metabolism, and ...

THIS little book on the elements of the rare earth group, or lanthanides as they are now called, contains chapters on (a) electronic structures and oxidation states, (b) magnetic properties, (c) ...

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 ...

The body is, for all intents and purposes, an extraordinarily complex machine. This requires a multitude of parts all working together in complicated relationships from the micro- to macromolecular ...