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Get facts about each of the chemical elements. Also find science projects involving the elements.
- Actinium (4)
- Aluminum or Aluminium (8)
- Americium (4)
- Antimony (5)
- Argon (6)
- Arsenic (4)
- Astatine (3)
- Barium (4)
- Berkelium (5)
- Beryllium (6)
- Bismuth (8)
- Bohrium (2)
- Boron (9)
- Bromine (4)
- Cadmium (4)
- Calcium (9)
- Californium (3)
- Carbon (18)
- Cerium (3)
- Cesium (5)
- Chlorine (10)
- Chromium (8)
- Cobalt (4)
- Copernicium (2)
- Copper (17)
- Curium (3)
- Darmstadtium (2)
- Dubnium (2)
- Dysprosium (3)
- Einsteinium (3)
- Erbium (2)
- Europium (3)
- Fermium (2)
- Flerovium (2)
- Fluorine (9)
- Francium (4)
- Gadolinium (3)
- Gallium (6)
- Germanium (4)
- Gold (11)
- Hafnium (4)
- Hassium (2)
- Helium (11)
- Holmium (3)
- Hydrogen (18)
- Indium (3)
- Iodine (9)
- Iridium (5)
- Iron (14)
- Krypton (4)
- Lanthanum (3)
- Lawrencium (2)
- Lead (8)
- Lithium (11)
- Livermorium (2)
- Lutetium (5)
- Magnesium (7)
- Manganese (3)
- Meitnerium (2)
- Mendelevium (2)
- Mercury (8)
- Molybdenum (4)
- Neodymium (3)
- Neon (8)
- Neptunium (3)
- Nickel (5)
- Niobium (4)
- Nitrogen (11)
- Nobelium (2)
- Osmium (6)
- Oxygen (10)
- Palladium (3)
- Phosphorus (9)
- Platinum (4)
- Plutonium (10)
- Polonium (5)
- Potassium (18)
- Praseodymium (3)
- Promethium (3)
- Protactinium (3)
- Radium (3)
- Radon (3)
- Rhenium (3)
- Rhodium (4)
- Roentgenium (2)
- Rubidium (4)
- Ruthenium (3)
- Rutherfordium (2)
- Samarium (3)
- Scandium (3)
- Seaborgium (2)
- Selenium (4)
- Silicon (6)
- Silver (8)
- Sodium (8)
- Strontium (5)
- Sulfur (13)
- Tantalum (3)
- Technetium (3)
- Tellurium (3)
- Terbium (3)
- Thallium (3)
- Thorium (3)
- Thulium (4)
- Tin (7)
- Titanium (5)
- Tungsten (4)
- Ununoctium or Element 118 (3)
- Ununpentium or Element 115 (2)
- Ununseptium or Element 117 (2)
- Ununtrium or Element 113 (2)
- Uranium (8)
- Vanadium (4)
- Xenon (3)
- Ytterbium (3)
- Yttrium (4)
- Zinc (7)
- Zirconium (6)
What Are Elements?
What are elements? The chemical elements are central to the study of chemistry and other science. This is the definition of elements and an introduction to the elements.
Element List
Here's a list of chemical elements ordered by increasing atomic number. The names and element symbols are provided.
Element Symbols
It's easier to navigate the periodic table and write chemical equations and formulae once you know the symbols for the elements. Here's an alphabetical list of element symbols with corresponding element names.