The periodic table merges scientific inquiry, international politics, hero worship, desires for structure and desires for credit. Formally, the modern periodic table is a systematic arrangement of the ...

Everybody remembers trying to learn the periodic table in science lessons at school. The table is one of the fundamental building blocks of chemistry, explaining the relationship between different ...

You'll find it on the wall of nearly every school chemistry laboratory in the land. And generations of children have sung the words, "hydrogen and helium, lithium, beryllium..." in an attempt to ...

Many students, especially non-science majors, dread chemistry. The first lesson in an introductory chemistry course typically deals with how to interpret the periodic table of elements, but its ...

IT IS chemistry’s poster child. From copper’s conductivity to mercury’s mercurial liquidity, the periodic table assigns the chemical elements to neat columns and rows and so reveals their properties.

Kelling Donald receives funding from The National Science Foundation, and the Dreyfus Foundation. The periodic table merges scientific inquiry, international politics, hero worship, desires for ...