Silencer Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdurg Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insane_alien Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdurg Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2SO4 Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 I think the table is fine the way it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulderMan Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluenoise Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silencer Posted July 23, 2005 Author Share Posted July 23, 2005 apparently it groups certain atoms with similar characteristics better than mendeleev's table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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