You're listening to Chemistry in its element brought to you by Chemistry World, the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Element 103 in the periodic table is called lawrencium. It was first ...

Elements after uranium on the periodic table have been synthesized for the ... in Dubna each have their own element named after them: Lawrencium and Dubnium, with atomic numbers 103 and 105 ...

You might think that these experiments and others like it would have settled the precise position of lawrencium in the periodic table but this has not been the case. And to find out how the ...