Anniversary of the Periodic Table
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The Periodic Table
So many people will know the periodic table, cold culd you talk us through, roughly, how the elements arranged? Yes. So basically it's almost a simple rectangle. And if you read it from left to right and then top to bottom, as you would read a book in the western world, a everything it reads in order of increasing nuclear mass by one. The reason it forms a table and a structure is because there are only so many orbitals we can put electrons. Every time you increase the nucleus by one, you have to add an electron as well. As you get heavier, you don't just put your electrons in simple spheres, simple circular orbits around your nucleus. You
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