Using waste and recycling as a way in to the periodic table (open access)
Issue 374 | Page 47 | Published Sep 2019
Description
We find that the way we sort our rubbish for recycling has strong links with the way the elements in them are bonded – a sort of periodic table for compounds emerges.
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A wide-ranging discussion of elements that are used to treat, prevent or diagnose disease, injury or illness.
How the periodic table came to be devised and why one version is now the preferred format.