periodic table of the elements

Cultural  

1. A chart of the chemical elements that displays them in rows horizontally in order of increasing atomic number and vertically according to similarity of the chemical properties of their atoms. The position of an element on the table thus gives useful information about the structure and chemical properties of the element. (See Dimitri Mendeleev.)

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Example Sentences

Hydrogen and helium are the first and lightest entries on the periodic table of the elements.

From Science Daily

To that end, Minkler has decorated every wall of her studio classroom with colorful bulletin boards and educational resources — including miniature biographies of William Shakespeare and Langston Hughes, fun facts about the ancient Greek gods, a planetary diagram of the solar system, the periodic table of the elements, guides to converting fractions and solving algebraic equations, giant maps of the United States and the world, and motivational phrases such as “Be brave,” “Dream big” and “Never give up.”

From Los Angeles Times

Visual artist Langley Spurlock and poet John Martin Tarrat spent several years interpreting the periodic table of the elements, and they’re not quite ready to let that subject go.

From Washington Post

Indeed, it was in the 1970s that Whittingham began investigating the use of lithium, the smallest and lightest metal in the periodic table of the elements.

From Scientific American

He published his now-famous version of the periodic table of the elements in 1869, the same year that Nature was launched.

From Nature