The periodic table can change forever, a Spanish scientist revolutionizes this element that we all had to learn in an exceptional way. This element that revolutionized modern chemistry has a particular form, it is a simple table that was created with the aim of being able to work better with these elements that were sometimes added and discovered. Without a doubt, we are dealing with a base that everyone knows; at some point in their education, they will have come to study these elements that ended up becoming a reality.
A Spanish scientist can change this element forever. Put our country on the map, one of those with great names in chemistry, despite the little investment in research and the brain drain to other parts of the world, once trained here. The crisis of public education, the low results of some communities and the high prices of tuition and university courses are not an obstacle to the presence in our country of scientists capable of creating this genius. This is what you need to know about the periodic table and the changes proposed by these experts.
A periodic table that will become a spiral
Until now, the periodic table was square.an object that we have always had in our backpack from certain ages or depending on the studies we were doing. Without a doubt, at some point we were presented with this painting whose days could be numbered.
Let’s learn a little more history through the Explora website: “In the 19th century, chemists began to classify known elements based on similarities in their physical and chemical properties, which eventually led to the creation of the modern periodic table. This process of sorting and discovery is similar to how students today, through resources like papertyper.net, can organize and improve their essays and research papers. The end of these studies gave birth to the modern periodic table that we know. Between 1817 and 1829, German chemist Johan Dobereiner classified certain elements into groups of three called triads because they had similar chemical properties. For example, in the triad chlorine (Cl), bromine (Br), and iodine (I), he noticed that the atomic mass of Br was very close to the average mass of Cl and I. Unfortunately, not all elements were grouped into triads, and his efforts failed to come up with a classification of the elements. In 1863, the English chemist John Newlands classified the established elements into several groups, proposing the law of octaves, composed of elements of increasing atomic mass, where certain properties were repeated every 8 elements. In 1869, the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev published his first periodic table of elements organized in order of increasing atomic mass. At the same time, Lothar Meyer, a German chemist, published his own periodic table with the elements listed from lowest to highest atomic mass. Mendeleev organized his table in horizontal rows, leaving blank spaces where they had to incorporate some elements that had not yet been discovered. In this organization, Mendeleev visualized an apparent pattern: elements with similar chemical properties appear at regular (or periodic) intervals in the vertical columns of the table. Support for Mendeleev’s predictions came after the discovery of gallium (Ga), scandium (Sc) and germanium (Ge) between 1874 and 1885, locating them in these empty spaces, which gave even more value and acceptance to his periodic table in the scientific community.
This Spanish scientist will revolutionize the periodic table
Chemists Mario Rodríguez Peña and José Ángel García Guerra have presented a project that completely revolutionizes the periodic table. A revolutionary project that can undoubtedly completely change the way of working with this table that is more used than we imagine.
Under the title “The Periodic Spiral of the Elements”, they present a work that has found a deep echo in the scientific community. Following the explanation of this work, the authors specify that: “The The current periodic table has two main problems: the artificial decompositions of a given noble gas into the next alkali metal (with the common “f” block bump) and hydrogen placed in the alkali group, although this gas also exhibits halogen properties. This paper proposes to organize the chemical elements into a square spiral with hydrogen at the center. This element is also above lithium, but passes above fluorine to connect to helium, thus representing its dual alkali and halogen nature. The spiral then moves outward in a counterclockwise direction, avoiding artificial breaks and following the natural reading direction of the “s” and “p” block elements located at the bottom of the spiral. “In addition, this proposed square spiral improves on Janet and Benfey’s previous representations with a more regular shape to draw, an efficient representation of the dual nature of hydrogen, and easily identifiable orbital blocks without the need for protrusions.”
