Anniversary of the Periodic Table
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How to Characterize a Compound?
In the nineteenth century, chemists had very few ways to define properties unambiguously. They could see if it dissolved in water; they could see maybe if it melted. But then you would taste things, and what you found was t in saltsta. We call them salts because they all have a slightly salty taste,. And so for sodium example, that will give you sodian chloride, which is salt, which is whan we think about. Yey, are definitely drenced. Have you remidium chloride? I have tasted rebidium chlorides. When i was in school, i wrote an essay on the periodic trends and thesl in the lab, and i almost got
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