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Article: Revised periodic table slanted toward astronomers.
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- Science Letter
- Article date:
- November 3, 2003
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2003 NOV 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The periodic table isn't what it used to be, thanks to innovations by a planetary chemist at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
Katharina Lodders, PhD, Washington University research associate professor in Earth and Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences, has evaluated data from numerous studies, including her own, and arranged the data into a periodic table slanted toward astronomers and cosmochemists. It's the Cosmochemical Periodic Table of the Elements in the Solar System. Instead of atomic number, atomic weights, and melting and boiling points, for example, Lodders provides elemental abundances and ...