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Article: Turning the tables: scientists are custom fitting the old periodic table for their own specialized uses.(Physical)
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- Current Science, a Weekly Reader publication
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- March 4, 2005
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Like many scientists, geologist Bruce Railsback uses the periodic table as a handy reference. The periodic table is, of course, the chart in which the elements are arranged according to their similarities and differences. Railsback even has a periodic table posted on the wall of his office at the University of Georgia, just as thousands of science classrooms across the country do.
On Railsback's table, there are sulfur and sulfur and sulfur and sulfur and ... Wait a minute! Four sulfurs? That can't be right.
Yes, it is. Railsback's periodic table is one he invented himself. Astronomer Katharina Lodders has one of her own too. Is something wrong with the ...
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