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Beyond the Periodic
Table of the Elements:
The correct placement of the elements on the periodic table concerns the search for patterns within the characteristics and properties of the elements and their atoms. Latin Symbolic Notation:
The chaotic alphabetic listing of the historical names is thereby avoided, emphasis now falls on the numerical progression. The Neutronic Schemata:
Specialized Schemata of the Elements.
We shall be exploring in detail some of the unsuspecting symmetries among the elements. The Conventional
Periodic Table of the Elements: A Certain Disorder
The conventional table also interrupts the sequential numbering of atomic numbers of the elements, which is another reason that some patterns are broken up, and impossible to discern. Handbooks
on Chemistry and Physics, The names of the elements are historically
accidental ones.
Forget the Periodic
Table?. The traditional periodic table denies a visualization
of the concept of the periodicity, the very concept that is supposedly
represents.
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