Periodic Table

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.8 • 27.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2011

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Everyone knows it when they see it. The classic “castle with turrets” periodic table is a beautiful and concise icon that contains a great deal of amazing information, if you only know how to read it. And even if you … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	We get support from UC Davis, a globally ranked university working to solve the world's most pressing problems in food, energy, health, education, and the environment.
0:10.0	UC Davis researchers collaborate and innovate in California and around the globe to find
0:14.2	transformational solutions.
0:16.1	It's all part of the university's mission to promote quality of life for all living things.
0:20.1	Find out more at 21st century.
0:21.9	UC Davis. edu.c. dot edu
0:27.0	ready this is 99% invisible I'm Roman Mars. Go.
0:35.0	Hydrogen helium, lithium,
0:38.0	lithium, everybody recognizes it when they see it.
0:41.0	Sort of has a castles with turrets look.
0:43.8	On the left and the right hand side, there are some taller towers and then it sort of dips in
0:49.8	the middle.
0:50.8	It's the periodic table of elements.
0:53.2	The bricks of the tower are the individual elements, all of the 118 elements that scientists
1:00.7	know exist.
1:02.2	And the way they're arranged on the table
1:04.0	is that elements that have very similar properties
1:07.9	and characteristics.
1:09.0	Similar properties like melting points
1:11.0	and similar chemical reactions with other elements are in the same vertical column on the table.
1:17.0	The fellow I'm talking to is Sam Keene.
1:22.0	My name is Sam Keene. The book is The Disappearing Spoon and other two tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the
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