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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  • gabbyover 14 years
    that is so cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    • UNKNOWNover 14 years
      Cool.
      • Violet Incredibleover 14 years
        Wow, that is really cool! That probably took a lot of time, and I would like to meet who ever did it! I think that this sort of project is extremely interesting!
        • Elinover 14 years
          That's a lot of elements to put in your hair!
          • Derekover 14 years
            amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
            • firstname,lastnameover 14 years
              freaky but awesome. i wouldn't waste my time doing it though
              • A Ghostover 14 years
                you guys are so right
                • dudenotdudetover 14 years
                  sweet i want that
                  • Anglaover 14 years
                    That is awsome.
                    • pennyover 14 years
                      i luv it