The colors of rubies and emeralds are so striking that they define shades of red and green—ruby red and emerald green. But ...

Only hydrogen, helium and lithium were formed during the Big Bang itself. The next element, beryllium, is relatively rare in the universe because it is also not formed in the nuclear furnaces of stars ...

But why beryllium, the number four element in the periodic table? There are several reasons for this, explains Dickopf, one of which is: "It has a small atomic nucleus, which is why certain ...