The periodic table has become an icon of science. Its rows and columns provide a tidy way of showcasing the elements — the ingredients that make up the universe. It seems obvious today, but it wasn’t ...

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Eric Scerri's delightful "The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance" follows the 1969 classic by J. W. Spronsen, "The Periodic System of Chemical Elements," but is a different treatment of ...

Periodic table is an arrangement of all known elements organized on the basis of structure and atomic number. Moving across the periodic table, one finds an increase in the number of protons. Moving ...

You probably studied the "regular" periodic table in school—but did you know there are more versions of the periodic table than just the one you know? The periodic table of elements has gone through ...

A couple of months ago I wrote a blog about different ways of presenting the periodic table (Click Here to see that blog). My interest was largely driven by a book called The Disappearing Spoon, in ...

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