• Question: what the point of the periodic table?

    Asked by Ksr_x to Alex, Ali, Kerry, Philip, Theo on 8 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Alison Thomson

      Alison Thomson answered on 8 Nov 2014:

      It puts all the elements in size order and groups together the ones that are similar!

    • Photo: Theo Laftsoglou

      Theo Laftsoglou answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      Also, by doing so (organising all known elements) allow scientists and students to predict the properties of an element and its behaviour during a chemical reaction. That way you don’t need to memorise all this information for each and every single element!

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