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  • The author also goes into some effort to show how the chemists of days past stumbled in a group effort spanning centuries to come to what is presently known as the Periodic Table.

    SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1185 2009

  • Scifi. com's Scifiction section has a regular feature by brilliant sf writer Michael Swanwick called the Periodic Table of Science Fiction.

    Boing Boing: August 11, 2002 - August 17, 2002 Archives 2002

  • We know that chemical behavior depends on the number of orbital electrons in an atom and that physical and chemical properties follow the pattern called the Periodic Table.

    The Worlds Of Robert A Heinlein Heinlein, Robert A. 1966

  • In order to complete the list of 92, to conform to the so-called Periodic Table, there are yet seven elements to be found by your scientists.

    The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a psychic revelation J. L. Kennon

  • In order to complete the list of 92, to conform to the so-called Periodic Table, there are yet seven elements to be found by your scientists.

    The Planet Mars And Its Inhabitants: A Psychic Revelation a Martian 1920

  • Now, it is a remarkable fact that in the so-called Periodic Law of the elements constituting matter the same relation is observed.

    Evolution An Investigation and a Critique Theodore Graebner 1913

  • They cited the use of applications such as Periodic, allowing access to the periodic table and the use of the calendar and tasks for personal planning.

    ZDNet UK Highlights 2009

  • At points the personal angle seems forced: He offers us his childhood interest in the elements as a motivation for the project, but this feels like an authorial gambit in comparison to the fanatical romance with chemistry that drove Oliver Sacks's boyhood memoir, "Uncle Tungsten," let alone the chemical summation of a life achieved by Primo Levi in "The Periodic Table."

    Periodic Table Talk Mike Jay 2011

  • RIA Novosti The element's rarity in ore form makes it more valuable than gold "Periodic Tales" disposes briskly with this familiar history; Mr. Aldersey-Williams wants to raise our eyes to a more expansive panorama, a weave of stories that reveals the richness of human activity across time and cultures.

    Periodic Table Talk Mike Jay 2011

  • Laguna Design A platinum molecule has 78 protons These connections between iron and blood represent just the sort of fertile overlap between the chemistry of the ­elements and their human meanings that Hugh Aldersey-Williams sets out to explore in "Periodic Tales."

    Periodic Table Talk Mike Jay 2011

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