Understanding the Periodic Table

Understanding the Periodic Table « Series from 2021

Series from 2021

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Refine your portrait of one of science’s most iconic images and crucial organizational tools in 24 lessons that combine instructions with experiments and animated lab demonstrations.

Emerge from this course with a fuller portrait of the periodic table and field of chemistry more broadly.

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The Periodic Table: Our Menu of Matter

From Triads to Tables and the Role of Protons

How Electrons Shape the Table

Periodic Trends in Element Properties

The Origin and Distribution of the Elements

Elements Break Down: Radiation and Fission

First-Row Opposites: Hydrogen and Helium

Sodium, Potassium, and the Alkali Metals

Magnesium, Calcium, and the Alkaline Earths

Enormous Variety on the Table’s Right Side

Noble Gases: The “Lazy” Unreactive Elements

Halogens: The Most Reactive Nonmetals

Why Oxygen and Nitrogen Are Irreplaceable

Complexity of Carbon, Sulfur, and Phosphorus

Silicon and the Metalloid Diagonal

Aluminum, Tin, Lead, and Other Weak Metals

The Table’s Great Divide: Transition Metals

Colorful and Durable Early Transition Metals

Magnets and Catalysts of the Middle Transition

From Coins to Toxins: Copper to Mercury

Rare-Earth Elements: Surprisingly Abundant

Nuclear Fuel: Thorium, Uranium, and Plutonium

Creating the Transplutonic Elements

Superheavy Atoms and the Transfermium Wars