You're listening to Chemistry in its element brought to you by Chemistry World, the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Any chemist could talk for days about carbon. It is after all an ...

Although metal ions are central to all of biochemistry, a group of elements clustered in the early part of the periodic table—carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and phosphorus—are highly represented in ...

Keeping up with the neighbours is rarely a concern in the periodic table. Nitrogen doesn't care much what carbon and oxygen are up to, and rarely casts covetous glances at phosphorous. But there's at ...

These are almost one-quarter of the periodic table and are mainly found in ... our bodies need in larger amounts: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulphur, chlorine, potassium ...