table of elements

Chemistry's organizing grid

The table of elements, more formally the periodic table, is a chart organizing all known chemical elements by atomic number and properties.

Elements in the same column share similar characteristics.

It's a fundamental reference in chemistry: I memorized the first twenty elements on the table of elements in high school.

Related

science class · periods · electron shells · valence electrons · isotopes · lanthanides · electron cloud · actinides · heavy metals · radioactive decay · electronegativity · atomic theory · quantum mechanics · alkali metals · noble gases · Glenn Seaborg · laboratory experiments · nuclear reactors

Opposites
scientific organization vs. chaos/randomness

table of elementsprimordial chaos

Formless state before creation

elemental/fundamental vs. compound/complex

table of elementschemical compounds

Bonded element combinations

molecular structures · mixtures · alloys · solutions

scientific/empirical vs. pre-scientific/mystical

table of elementsquintessence

Purest embodiment of something

philosopher's stone · phlogiston theory · elemental magic

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