The story of the last element to be discovered out of the first 92 catalogued in the periodic table is told by Eric Scerri, who reminds us that technetium can be found a little closer to home than ...

Rhenium and technetium not only share the same group in the periodic table, but also have some common history relating to how they were — or indeed weren't — discovered. Eric Scerri explains.

Instead they proposed bohrium, which became the officially recognised name in 1997. In the periodic table bohrium lies below chromium, technetium and rhenium in group 6. However, the application of ...