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150 Years of the Periodic Table [2021]

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Editors’ Introduction
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Dmitri Mendeleev and the Periodic System: Philosophy, Periodicity, and Predictions
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The Trouble with Triads
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Josiah Parsons Cooke, the Natural Philosophy of Sir John F. W. Herschel and the Rational Chemistry of the Elements
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<italic>Vis Tellurique</italic> of Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois
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Periodicity in Britain: The Periodic Tables of Odling and Newlands
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Gustavus Hinrichs and His Charts of the Elements
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The Periodic Table of the Elements and Lothar Meyer
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Translation of §§ 91–94 of Lothar Meyer’s <italic>Modernen Theorien</italic> (1864)
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Discovery of Three Elements Predicted by Mendeleev’s Table: Gallium, Scandium, and Germanium
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The Rare Earths, a Challenge to Mendeleev, No Less Today
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The History (and Pre-history) of the Discovery and Chemistry of the Noble Gases
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Element Discovery and the Birth of the Atomic Age
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Mary Elvira Weeks and <italic>Discovery of the Elements</italic>
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Astronomy Meets the Periodic Table, Or, How Much Is There of What, and Why?
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The Impact of Twentieth-Century Physics on the Periodic Table and Some Remaining Questions in the Twenty-First Century
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An Essay on Periodic Tables
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The Periodic Table at 150: A Philatelic Celebration
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