Despite the name, most REEs are not particularly rare. They were called “rare-earth elements” because, when they were ...

Look down at your feet. If you dig a little deeper you should stumble upon the second most abundant element on Earth: silicon. It makes up about 25% of the Earth's crust by weight 1. But in the ...

Iron, the most abundant element by mass on Earth, reveals a fascinating complexity under extreme conditions of temperature ...

U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" ...

It's the eighth most abundant element in the observable Universe, but the third most abundant on Earth. As a little scientific bonus, all this silicon indicates that Earth and the other rocky ...

Paul Knochel relates how this element has also sparked a great deal of interest among chemists. One of the most abundant elements on Earth (the sixth in order of weight abundance), magnesium ...

Atomic number 16, atomic weight 32.064. Silicon (Si): Silicon is the second most abundant element in the earth's crust and can be found in rocks, sand and clay. It acts as a deoxidizer in steel ...

Hydrogen is the lightest element in the universe and the most abundant, so on paper, hydrogen fuel has a lot going for it. Although it rarely exists on its own on Earth, it can be produced using ...