The lanthanide (4 f) and actinide (5 f) elements (collectively the “ f -block”) comprise around a quarter of the periodic table, and many are essential to key aspects of modern life and ...

That’s partly because these f-block elements can form higher coordinate complexes with ligands compared to d-block transition metals, according to Ping Yang and Michael G. Taylor, computational ...

FLEETING Despite new results, controversy remains over where the radioactive element lawrencium (plus its upstairs neighbor lutetium) should be in the periodic table: in the d-block or f-block. E ...

By element 57, lanthanum, the electrons begin to enter a new type of orbital, an f-orbital. To account for this, most periodic tables hive off the elements making up this f-block, putting it below ...

The lanthanide (4f) and actinide (5f) elements (collectively the “f-block”) comprise around a quarter of the periodic table, and many are essential to key aspects of modern life and society ...