• chingadera@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    I asked my science teacher why and how the periodic table was setup like it was, I got “that’s how it’s setup”

    But why, there as to be a reason

    That’s just the way they made it

    Yeah because they have to have gone by something what is that something

    That’s just the way they did, stop asking questions (please don’t fucking learn in here)

    Godamn that pissed me off.

        • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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          16 days ago

          in case you still care: the periodic table is arranged primarily by the chemical properties of its elements (mainly electronegativity, i.e. how much energy it takes to add/remove an electron to/from the atom) and also by their mass.