Tuesday, April 12, 2011

just read.....

The Periodic Table of the Elements
The president of the Inorganic Chemistry Division, Gerd Rosenblatt, recognizing that the periodic table of the elements found in the “Red Book” (Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry, published in 1990) needed some updating—particularly elements above 103, including element 110 (darmstadtium)—made a formal request to Norman Holden and Tyler Coplen to prepare an updated table. This table can be found at www.iupac.org/reports/periodic_table/ and as a tear-off on the inside back cover of the printed version of the January-February 2004 issue of CI.
by Norman E. Holden and Ty Coplen
The Russian chemist Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev constructed his original periodic table in 1869 using as its organizing principle his formulation of the periodic law: if the chemical elements are arranged in the ascending order of their atomic weights, then at certain regular intervals (periods) elements occur having similar chemical and physical properties.

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