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Article: Hey, the periodic table of elements can be entertaining.(Time Out!)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- January 14, 2000
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Getting there: www.uky.edu/ ~holler/periodic/periodic.html www.superdeluxe.com/ elemental
Most of us had to endure it at some point in school: memorizing the periodic table of the elements. Atomic numbers, weight, all that fun stuff that's of little use today - unless you continued into chemistry or other science fields.
Leave it to a couple of semi-nerdy Web sites to put the life back into something that sucked hours away from us. First up is the Periodic Table of Comic Books, at www.uky.edu/ ~holler/periodic/periodic.html.
A couple guys at the University of Kentucky decided to document the frequent occurrences of elements in comic books. From ...