Should the Periodic Table be upside down? - turning it through 180 degrees for a new perspective

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08 Apr 2019 16:00:00.000

Could turning the periodic table on its head make some important aspects easier to understand and enthuse more people to study chemistry?

This question is posed in an article published in Nature Chemistry today by chemists and psychologists at the University of Nottingham and Manchester and Liverpool universities.

2019 marks the 150thanniversary of the first publication of Mendeleev’s periodic table, which has become the accepted way of arranging the elements and of predicting new ones – but is there a better way of presenting this information for a new and in particular a young audience?

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