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About half the periodic tables you see are wrong. The only question is: which…
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On Wikipedia, the top row of elements in green start with element 57, lanthanum…
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@johncarlosbaez trying to figure out what this graphical notation means, before…
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@johncarlosbaez (I am not a chemist.) There's at least one more possibility…
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I have strong opinions about this, explained in this blog article:https://johnc…
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@Pashhur - that's right, but a more chemical way to say it is: Brittanica s…
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The only reason we draw the lanthanoids (and actinoids) in a separate row below…
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@johncarlosbaez Astrophysicists have the right idea: everything heavier than He…
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@johncarlosbaez Doesn't this kind of ambiguity go all the way up? I recall …
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@johncarlosbaez Checked my books (bought between 89 and 97). Most of them have…
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@maz - truth and justice may be starting to win in this one case!
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@mattmcirvin - hydrogen is certainly another ambiguous case! Is it an element …
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@johncarlosbaez I dimly remember that at everyday pressures and very low temper…
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@johncarlosbaez I see this as an example of Nature mocking our attempts at clas…
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@BartoszMilewski - I'm intrinsically more optimistic about the power of mat…
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@johncarlosbaez Some of the patterns that most directly encourage putting lanth…
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@mattmcirvin wrote: I *was* wondering if it made sense to put beryllium and mag…
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@mattmcirvin - here you can see more "diagonal relationships". But i…
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@johncarlosbaez Why are you comparing Britannica and Wikipedia?Royal Society of…
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@pewnack - I'm not so interested in the authority of the sources, just that…
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@pewnack - while the American Chemical Society includes both lanthanum and lute…
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@johncarlosbaez (ice is also a molecular solid, but without that kind of rotati…
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@mattmcirvin - the entropy of ice is apparently largely due to the randomness o…
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@johncarlosbaez Janet's left-step periodic table is arguably the most elega…
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@johncarlosbaez I guess the irregularity introduced when we go from Janet's…
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@mattmcirvin - It looks like Janet's table is implementing the 'Madelun…
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@johncarlosbaez I guess my observation was really far more basic than that: in …
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@mattmcirvin - oh, I was looking at the wrong table just now! Here's Janet…
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@johncarlosbaez That table is super regular, but it's more regular than rea…
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@johncarlosbaez ...Anyway, drawing it that full-width way makes me think that t…
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@mattmcirvin - I consider scandium and yttrium transition metals simply because…
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@johncarlosbaez I think you meant Polonium.
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@johncarlosbaez La is included with the Lanthananides (hence the name) because …
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@johncarlosbaez If I recall my rare earth chemistry, the f-subshell is closer t…
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@pewnack - cool stuff! Wikipedia says"With the exception of lutetium, the…
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@johncarlosbaez I suppose it comes down to which elements are better heavier an…
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@60sRefugee - yes, that's the question! The chemical properties don't…
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@johncarlosbaez Why not?
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@pewnack - because lutetium, unlike the lanthanides, has a completely full f su…
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@johncarlosbaez I've got this
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@byczech - they're pretty! But for the left one, I'd prefer a version …
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