• Question: bestt way to meomrise the periodic tabel

    Asked by anon-335997 on 7 Oct 2022.
    • Photo: Justin Perry

      Justin Perry answered on 7 Oct 2022:

      I am a Professor of Chemistry, and I must admit I don’t know the whole Periodic Table off by heart!

      What you discovered is that there are patterns within the arrangement of elements which make most of it memorable (e.g. the halogens all sit in the same column and go from gases at the top to liquids at the bottom.) and knowing those patterns is the more important thing to remember.
      I actually have a Periodic Table on the wall behind my desk at work when I have to look something specific up.

    • Photo: Dan Day

      Dan Day answered on 12 Oct 2022:

      Don’t! haha I once had a lecturer who told me you needed to know it by heart if you wanted to do science as a job. Well, he must be fuming at my career path ;P Justin is completely right about their grouping by properties and that is most of what you need to know

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