In the Western world, the colourful history of chromium begins, suitably enough, at the far end of the visible spectrum with a red-orange mineral that was named "Siberian red lead" by its discoverer, ...

Chromium is a metal in group VIB of the periodic table with atomic number 24, an atomic weight of 51.996, and a density of 7.19. It has a melting temperature of 1875 C. The electronic configuration ...

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 ...