Carbon is found in cellulose and lignin, the structural polymers of plants, as well as the DNA they use to live, grow and ...

Cesium is the rarest and most electropositive of five naturally occurring alkali metals, but it is not mined in the United States, which is completely dependent on imports. And now, this critical ...

During World War II a scientist named Georg Otto Erb developed the molten salt battery for use in military applications. The war ended before Erb’s batteries found any real use, but British ...

Metals are electropositive chemical elements, and as such have a propensity to form cations, which they are found as – often bound in metalloproteins – in living systems. Many metals play ...