The Second Element

1645, Musei di Strada Nuova, Genoa”. Although the bright red cloth that cover Icarus is replaced with a white one, this artwork still does well in beautifully capturing the other essential elements of this scene. Icarus is depicted looking over his shoulder with his head tilted slightly upward to express his cocky mood. His facial expression shows that he is not paying attention to what his father is telling him and is just brushing it off…

Akasha is the word we use to mean the Element of Spirit. The are five Elements used in magic, Air, Fire, Water, Earth and Spirit or Akasha which is the combination of the other four Elements. Without Akasha you could not have the other four Elements because Akasha or Spirit is the principal element in everything. Akasha is the source of all energy, energy that has not yet taken form or substance. Akasha is energy without form. To me Akasha means the spirit or universal force which is the base…

gases are the group of elements which are like no other elements. The noble gases are the elements grouped as the last group, group 18. These elements, from smallest to greatest atomic mass, are Helium, Neon, Argon, Krypton, Xenon, and Radon. Group 18 wasn't always called the noble gases. this group used to be called the inert gassses. They changed the name of thisi group because they are not always inert, or chemically inactive. the first element in this group is the element Helium.…

Introduction: The periodic table is a table of the chemical elements in which the elements are arranged by order of a atomic number. The periodic table also has a special name for its vertical columns. Each column is called a group. The elements in each group have the same number of electrons in the outer orbital. Those outer electrons are also called valence electrons. They are the electrons involved in chemical bonds with other elements. Every element in…

I read the book A Tale of Seven Elements by Eric R. Scerri. This book was published on June 20 of 2013 by Oxford University Press, USA and it contains 270 pages. A Tale of Seven Elements is a non fiction chemistry book. Overall this book talks about how seven elements - protactinium, hafnium, rhenium, technetium, francium, astatine and promethium - were discovered. These elements are referred to him as infra-uranium elements. Each element has its own chapter with a description to how it was…

5-CinthiaV-Selenium The name of my element is Selenium. The element symbol is “Se”. Selenium was discovered in Sweden by Jons Jacob Berzelius in 1817. Selenium is an origin for a greek word meaning moon. Selenium has four energy levels. In the first energy level, it has two electrons. The second energy level has eight electrons. The third energy level has 18 electrons. The fourth energy level has six valence electrons. Selenium has forty-five neutrons. Selenium has the…

knowingly) shaped by elements. In The Disappearing Spoon, the author Sam Kean, discusses the wonderful world of the periodic table in depth. Within the first nine chapters of the novel, Kean explains the importance of location on the table, origin and discovery of each element, and its impact on other aspects of human life. Through various tales, the table is pulled apart and analyzed in an ingenious way. To a reader, it is interesting to follow how our life is determined by the elements of the…

included in the periodic table of elements with the abbreviation At and an atomic number of 85. Considered a Halogen and sharing many traits of Halogens, especially Iodine, astatine lies in column seven and period six of the current periodic table. Like many of the elements, astatine’s initial inspiration for discovery was to fill-in a missing part of the periodic table. In 1872, Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleev wrote a paper on the periodic table which included the element francium. As noted in…

The second most abundant element in the Earth’s crust other than oxygen is silicon which if by mass is around 25.7g or 23%. However in nature, silicon never exist as a free or pure element but instead it mostly combines with the most abundant element in the Earth’s crust, oxygen, hence producing silica (SiO₂) or silicate minerals. The most prominent charge of Si in the crust is +4 rather than +2 which involve a silicon atom to bond in a tetrahedral manner with 4 other oxygen atoms giving rise to…

Chlorine is the second to lightest member of the halogen elements. It is in Group 17 (Group VIIA) and period 3 of the periodic table. The element symbol for Chlorine is Cl. Chlorine is a greenish yellow gas that is corrosive, toxic and can be irritating to the eyes and respiratory system. Chlorine is a nonmetal that has the atomic mass of 35.45 amu. It has a melting point of -100.98 degrees Celsius and a boing point of -34.6 degrees Celsius. However, at room temperature it is a gas. Chlorine…