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Article: VOA NEWS: WEBSITE OF THE WEEK - LANL PERIODIC TABLE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 26, 2007
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The Voice of America issued the following story:
Time again for our Website of the Week, when we showcase interesting and innovative online destinations. Our web guide is VOA's Art Chimes.
This week, we feature an online version of one of the most useful tools for understanding chemistry and the chemical elements that make up the world around us.
The Periodic Table of the Elements has been around, in one form or another, since the mid-19th century. Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev is generally credited with creating the first version. But it's been modified over the years, first on paper and now online in various versions, including the one hosted at Los Alamos National Laboratory, ...