Corny Chemistry Spot

     In my previous post, I had mentioned how the f-block elements never belonged to the main table and how they would cause havoc in the main table if we tried including them. If you had thought about this a little simpler, the answer lies within. What do you believe, would be the main reason the periodic table is handy and containing plenty of hidden information? The arrangement of elements are in such a manner that it shows several linking properties within itself known as the periodic trends. Keeping in mind of these trends and the 28 f-block elements, did you ever think about the contradictions these elements would make if they were inserted into the regular/main table?      The trends that follow across periods and groups are violated when these 28 elements are inserted in the main table. Do remember, that when you are inserting these elements, they cause a skip of the succeeding elements as well and we are rather not dividing the table into two and ...

      Man cannot discover new oceans unless he possesses the courage to lose sight of the shore . Growing up as a chemist, we all would have neglected certain parts of the subject that appeared confusing or complicated. I, for once, swear on myself that out of 10 topics in the subject, I had at least skipped 3 of them!. A typical student, needless to say a chemist, tends to avoid the understanding part of a minimum of one-tenth of the syllabus put in front of him. One would rather mug them up in some weird memory sequence instead of breaking our heads over understanding it. ( Quantum chemistry would be the perfect example for this very situation). Lucky students like myself, had the opportunity of facing the periodic table in my second year of college. Understanding the true nature of a 118 elements wasn't a simple task. In fact, my lecturers covered only let's say, 25 elements from the whole. Out of the 25, only 6 or 7 were discussed in detail.      A fe...

       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...