Video Of The Week - The World's Smallest Periodic Table Of Elements
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Scientists from United Kingdom's University of Nottingham's Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Center have managed to do something quite fascinating - Fit the entire Periodic Table of Elements, including all known Actinides and Lanthanides onto a professor's single strand of curly hair!
Just to give you an idea of how 'nano' it truly is, it apparently could be copied onto a small post-it note a million times, and there would still be room to spare! The best part is, they recorded the whole thing for everyone to witness.
For those of you not familiar, The Periodic Table is a tabular display of chemical elements and provides a useful way to classify, systemize and compare the many different forms of chemical interactions. First invented in 1869 by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev to illustrate the recurring (periodic) trends in the properties of elements, the table has gone through various renditions over the years, as new elements have been discovered and new theoretical models to explain chemical behavior have been developed.
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- booover 14 yearsperiodic tables are so boring
- mysterygirlover 14 yearsi mean this.not his.whoosps.
- mysterygirlover 14 yearsi agree with you linz. they should try to find a cure for autisum or cancer.my mom had cancer.she survived.my bad tmi! Anyway,his article is really cool.
- PaulaAlmeidaover 14 yearsthis is a veryawesome i love this video of the wek
- PaulaAlmeidaover 14 yearsthis is a veryawesome i love this video of the wek
- Bobover 14 yearsElin there not putting all the elements on there they are just writing it on there! And if that was a joke it wasn't funny
- Bobover 14 yearsElin there not putting all the elements on there they are just writing it on there!
- Linzover 14 yearsThis is cool, but these scientists could be doing something better, like finding a cure for a disease. They should be helping people, not writing on some guys hair.
- Kaiyelover 14 yearsMe either, Firstname lastname!
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