The point about the "vis tellurique" is that de Chancourtois envisioned not a table but rather a helix for the elements: link. This was years before Mendeleev proposed his table. De Chacoutois' work was forgotten for many years.
The beauty of de Chancourtois' idea is that it more clearly embodies the notion of "periodic" which literally means peri + hodos (a going around). It also suggests ouroboros.
Notice on the helix how de Chancourtois put beryllium off the vertical line with magnesium and calcium. He, like Mendeleev and every chemist up until Bohr & Rutherford (who weren't chemists), arranged atoms by increasing weight which led to confusion. Young Henry Moseley proved that the integer atomic number was the underlying key. He took a bullet to the head from a Turkish gun at Gallipoli in service to his King.
My major was Environmental Engineering, and I dropped out at the start of my senior year, because I didn't like how my future was shaping up, and school was becoming more work and less fun. The curriculum was heavy in chemistry and that was the hardest part, but I had a great professor that chaired the major, and also taught chemistry and industrial waste treatment technology. He was a young guy, hippy type with a hippy wife. They lived deep in the woods in a very cool home that he designed and built himself. It was the late 70s and he incorporated every environmental idea devised by then, and added a few new ones. It was completely off the grid, but still was very well appointed, and just very well done. He was like a god to us at the time. I always loved science, but he made me love chemistry. In fact, every chemistry teacher I ever had was great from high school through college. They were all tough, interesting, and had a sense of humor.
"Better living through chemistry" was the motto of my friends in college, and we didn't mean engineering.
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Palladium...
'If Madonna calls I'm not Home.'
The framerate is too poor to be dizzying.
Still a good representation of how the electron shells group elements tho.
Not a great animation but I like what they have done with the table.
The point about the "vis tellurique" is that de Chancourtois envisioned not a table but rather a helix for the elements: link. This was years before Mendeleev proposed his table. De Chacoutois' work was forgotten for many years.
The beauty of de Chancourtois' idea is that it more clearly embodies the notion of "periodic" which literally means peri + hodos (a going around). It also suggests ouroboros.
HODOPHOBE!!!
@Sixty: People who shun traveling are hodophobes.
A hodophobe married to a hobophobe - a match made in heaven.
Notice on the helix how de Chancourtois put beryllium off the vertical line with magnesium and calcium. He, like Mendeleev and every chemist up until Bohr & Rutherford (who weren't chemists), arranged atoms by increasing weight which led to confusion. Young Henry Moseley proved that the integer atomic number was the underlying key. He took a bullet to the head from a Turkish gun at Gallipoli in service to his King.
Just another reason to eschew royalty.
Watching the Charlie Rose interview of Assad.
The dictator is making himself understood.
Assad is a portmanteau word of "sad ass" (French word order, of course)
"Winning is a subjective word"...
al-Assad
Don't you call me a terrorist!
My major was Environmental Engineering, and I dropped out at the start of my senior year, because I didn't like how my future was shaping up, and school was becoming more work and less fun. The curriculum was heavy in chemistry and that was the hardest part, but I had a great professor that chaired the major, and also taught chemistry and industrial waste treatment technology. He was a young guy, hippy type with a hippy wife. They lived deep in the woods in a very cool home that he designed and built himself. It was the late 70s and he incorporated every environmental idea devised by then, and added a few new ones. It was completely off the grid, but still was very well appointed, and just very well done. He was like a god to us at the time. I always loved science, but he made me love chemistry. In fact, every chemistry teacher I ever had was great from high school through college. They were all tough, interesting, and had a sense of humor.
"Better living through chemistry" was the motto of my friends in college, and we didn't mean engineering.
"The terrorist don't have ID. We look at their faces and they look foreign."
al-Assad
@9:24, I was rephrasing al-Assad.
I wish I remembered just 10% of the chemistry I learned in my life. I can't even balance a simple reaction now.
OK maybe just one:
If you electrocute a bagoh20 you get:
2 H2O → 2 H2 + O2
We live here. this is not CNN.
That's very interesting. It's an eye-opener that the elements can be grouped in a different configurations.
He defended himself very well for a madman butcher.
Okay, let me try:
HCL+NaHCO3--->H20+CO2+NaCl
@9:46, I was rephrasing al-Assad.
Good job balancing, baoh20 and deborah.
BTW, deborah's chemistry is spontaneous but bagoh20's is not.
@deborah: I've been thinking of changing my avatar, but it sort of goes with the screen name.
So I got sodium bicarbonate correct? I was working backward from the right side of the equation.
No worries, I'll get used to it...some day.
I think you should be Chicken Little for a while :)
Lem needs an open thread to put in all his Putin.
You mean, retro style?
Of course.
"BTW, deborah's chemistry is spontaneous but bagoh20's is not."
I just need a little moonlight - maybe dinner and a movie.
And then I become explosive.
You grow to resemble a Hindenburg?
What's the difference between *redacted* and the Hindenburg?
One's a flaming Nazi gasbag, the other is just a balloon.
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