A periodic table of highly loaded ions
Chunhai Lyu et al. (2025)
A new version of the periodic table of elements has predicted hundreds of highly loaded ions that could be used to create the next generation of optical atomic watches.
The periodic table, first invented by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869, groups the 118 chemical elements known according to their chemical properties. Because the elements in the same parts of the periodic table share similar characteristics, this order allowed chemicals to identify the gaps in the table decades ago, and it has been extended to discover the elements to fill them.
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