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The Periodic Table: Learning it the right way!

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       I can imagine half of the viewers immediately closing this page by just taking a look at the title, but believe me readers, we've been reading/learning the periodic table the wrong way ever since its introduction to us. The periodic table had taken several turns before arriving to what we see of it today. My fellow chemists would agree that the Modern periodic table wasn't the first to be invented by mankind. The periodic table originated based on "trends". These trends usually depend on the physical properties of the elements or sometimes just a similarity complex. The fundamental classifications started out in several ways.      From  Döbereiner   ( pronounced as "doo-ba-high-nah") as triads that showed triplets of elements in an arithmetic pattern. The "Octaves" of Newland that arranged elements in sets of eight, just like an octave in classical music theory. I'm pretty sure that any chemist would've come across both of these at...

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       The end of something is the commencement of another. Being a student in this era of woke and questioning mindsets is a tough job, and choosing a subject that you're passionate of is even more difficult. Out of all the people that I've met in my entire life, I could daringly say that a minimum of 6 out of 10 hate the subject " Chemistry ". Now my very thought when I see them fearing just the subject would retaliate often. The question that keeps arising within me is, "Why do people/students fear Chemistry?". Isn't it just a normal subject like any other? Well frankly speaking, the world works around different perspectives and I was too young to realize that.     The sheer urge towards the subject was created when I was barely an adolescent. Call it the work of attraction or the teacher's motivation, either way I was somehow into this subject. Yet, the more I moved towards my teenage, the more people I saw who were afraid of it. The question tha...