Periodic Table
By: Edward • Essay • 392 Words • January 12, 2010 • 878 Views
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Since the beginning of time, it has been human nature to orginaize things so that it will be easier for us to use and understand. The periodic table is one of those things. It was orginaized in such a way that it is filled with patterens everywhere you look. This makes understanding the periodic table much easier and much more interesting.
The periodic table, like many other things, is orginized so that the many patterns of the elements are shown and understood in the easiest way. Going down the elements get bigger, going to the right they get smaller, therefore in the top right corner lays the smallest elements. The simplest things like that make the periodic table so great. Just by having it orginized in that way, it can tell you many other things about the elements, which I think is very cool.
In school, the bell rings at cerain times to help us know when class has started and ended, this is just like the periodic table because it is arranged to help us understand why certain elements do certain things. It shows you which elements are most reactive and least reactive, which elements are noble gases or metals, and many other things. This helps people understand chemical reactions better and which elements are more common, all