xkcd: Elements (by Randall Munroe)

The Universe in a Table

From the coolest to the most useless element, the Periodic Table conceals the most astounding stories of science

Sharika Hafeez
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4 min readJan 23, 2020

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If you knew that Dmitri Mendeleev, the brains behind the arrangement of the very first Periodic Table, was a man as cranky as he was brainy, the exhausting hours of chemistry may have been a little bit more bearable.

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Sharika Hafeez

Writer. Physics student. Under the inky-black sky, with a steaming cup of chai in my hands, I watch the stars and I write.