• Question: How many elements in the Periodic Table?

    Asked by becky to Ashley, Bernard, Carsten, MariaMagdalena, Monique on 16 Nov 2015.
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      Bernard Ennis answered on 16 Nov 2015:

      At the moment there are 118 known elements, that is elements that either occur naturally (the first 94 elements in the periodic table) or have been synthesised in a laboratory (95-118). When I was at University (around 20 years ago) there were only 107 elements, which means that since then, on average, one new element has been synthesised every two years.

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