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    ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR MENDELEEV

    Apr 01, 2022 2 minutes
    Nick D’Alto

    How can you organize this mess? No, we’re not talking about your room—let’s not go overboard here! We’re talking about the elements. You know, carbon, magnesium, lead. They were all just rocks-in-a-box, until a Russian guy with a messy beard named Dmitri Mendeleev (1834–1907) arranged them into the famous periodic table of the elements. Now, an updated version of

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