Chemistry · C8
The periodic table
There are about ninety elements that occur on Earth, and for most of the nineteenth century nobody could say why some of them behaved alike. This unit is about the arrangement that answered it — what a column means, what a row means, and how a table can let you describe an element nobody has found yet.
- 1Metals and non-metalsContrast
- 2Mendeleev and the table that predictedModel
- 3Groups and periodsModel
- 4Group 1 — the alkali metalsModel
- 5Group 7 — the halogensContrast
- 6Group 0 and why groups existModel
- 7Metal and non-metal oxidesContrast