The periodic table of elements is a cornerstone of modern chemistry, representing the organized arrangement of all known chemical elements.
Its iconic layout provides scientists with a systematic framework to understand the properties and relationships of these fundamental building blocks of matter.
You may remember the periodic table of the elements as a dreary chart on your classroom wall. If so, you never guessed its real purpose: It’s a giant cheat sheet. We have 10 things you didn’t know about the periodic table.
The table has served chemistry students since 1869 when it was created by Dmitri Mendeleev, a cranky professor at the University of St. Petersburg. With a publisher’s deadline looming, Mendeleev didn’t have time to describe all 63 then-known elements. Mendeleyev turned to a data set of atomic weights meticulously gathered by others.
Dmitri Mendeleev is best known for creating the periodic table. Fond of card games, he ...
