New Periodic Table?

[Silencer]

It's interesting. Go to the slide show and just skip through until it shows you the picture of the new periodic table (the other info in the slide show will be very mundane to you).

 

http://www.slate.com/id/2122919?nav=wp

[jdurg]

Possible? Yes. Practical? Not a chance. The major plus of the current periodic table is that you are easily able to find the information that you need and make logical assumptions about the properties of the elements.

[insane_alien]

God that would make chemistry harder. the current table is simple, logical, easy to use, can help you predict properties of elements or at least make an educated guess.

As far as i am concerned the current table has only 1 flaw: nobody is quite sure where to put hydrogen.

[jdurg]

I'm fine with hydrogen right where it is. As far as scientists can tell, hydrogen is a metallic substance as a solid, though that is still somewhat up for debate. Hydrogen seems to exist more prevalantly, and more stable, as a positively charged species. Therefore, I think it is more like the alkali metals than the halogens. Also, by having hydrogen where it is the periodic table is somewhat symmetrical. Good for those of us who are anal-retentive.

[H2SO4]

I think the table is fine the way it is.

[MulderMan]

Yea I'm fine with the way it is, really the mendeleev table has become a "standard". Now days i dont use it that much but i guess if i would have grown up with a different table then i would probably got used to that.

[Bluenoise]

So all they did was just bend it around into a spiral to give the impression that it looks like a galaxy. It's much harder to read this way. I really don't see the point.

[Silencer]

apparently it groups certain atoms with similar characteristics better than mendeleev's table.