Does anyone know the periodic table by sentences?

Question

Would you share them?

I'm really good at chemistry but I have an awful memory and I haven't been able to learn the table (indispensable for me , since I'm a chemistry major)

Answer 1

I have a degree in chemistry and have been working in this area for 18 years. I have never had the table memorized. I can tell you from my experience that memorizing it is a complete waste of time. If you ever need to know anything about the preiodic table just look it up. The only thing I ever had to do was to draw the table and fill in the atomic numbers but I never had to memorize which elements go where.

Answer 2

I agree with a previous poster. Memorization (at least of the PT) isn't a major issue except at the lower levels. If you still haven't memorized the positions of the major (to you) elements, then perhaps you need to do more problems?

Even if you have swiss cheese memory, perhaps the other way of looking at this is to think and say families rather than try to picture where they are.

I'd be happy if a student knew that the halogens were simply F, Cl, Br, and I, rather than thinking "Flo Clipped Bruno's I-brows" and then meditate over F is Fluorine, Cl is Chlorine, Br is bromine, and I-brow is Iodine.

I give students a PT and on the reverse side an alphabetical list of elements, if that might help your studies.

And, finally winding down my rambles, I don't really care if you know Al is in group 13, but would rather that you understand that the elements in the 1st column of the p-block are ns^2np^1. You can then find out the name of the element that fills that position.

Answer 3

I am also in the camp of people who think you don't need to memorize the entire periodic table.You should be familiar with the first 20 elements and perhaps the elements in group 1, 2, 7 and 8. But as for transitional metals? bah, I look the up all the time. In my first year of University I got a periodic table the size of a business card which I kept with my calculator. It got me out of many a pickle!

Answer 4

``It's simply the names of the chemical elements set to a possibly recognizable tune.

``There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium
And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium (inhale)
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.

``There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium and barium.

``Isn't that interesting?
I knew you would.
I hope you're all taking notes, because there's gonna be a short quiz next period.

``There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium
And phosphorous and francium and fluorine and terbium
And manganese and mercury, molybdinum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium
And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,
Paladium, promethium, potassium, polonium, and
Tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium, (inhale)
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.

``There's sulfur, californium and fermium, berkelium
And also mendelevium, einsteinium and nobelium
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper,
Tungsten, tin and sodium.
sing it

Answer 5

in turkish we use turkish language we use

H, Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Fr
Haydarpaşa Lİsesinin NAnkör Kimyacısı RaBiyanın CeSedini FıRlattı

F, Cl, Br,
fino civcivin burnunu.....

Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, ...
betmenin mağarasında kalan serhatı babası rahatlattı

He, Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe, ..

hergele necip arsız karısını kesip rendeledi

Answer 6

not every chemist has the periodic table memorized. most of it have fragments memorized unless some prof required it. knowing what to do with the knowledge the periodic table gives you is another story indeed.

Answer 7

What a stupid @$$ task. happy your mothers and fathers are paying good tax money on your district. in any case... how about: "W-He-N Y-O-U Na-B N-Ar-C-S At N-O-O-N, Be S-U-Re Th-At C-O-P-S Ca-N Ne-V-Er W-I-Se U-P Be-C-Au-Se Y-O-U Ra-N." *each hyphenation separates an aspect from the different

Answer 8

If you look group wise....they make music...(well may be not that well...but can be helpful, sounds like French and Hindi)

1st group....Li Na KaRu Ce Fr (Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Fr)
2nd group...Be Ma CaStro Ba Ra (Be,Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Ra)
3rd group.... BAl Gain Tha (B, Al, Ga, In, Tl)
4th group....Casi Geti Le (C, Si, Ge, Sn, Pb)
5th group.....Ni pho As Anti-Bis (N, P, As, Sb, Bi)
6th group....O' Su-se-te-po (O,S,Se,Te,Po)
7th group....(this one's easy) Flo Chlo Bro Io As(and not At...for remembering Astatine)
nobles.....HeNe Are Krap XeRa(can rem this from xerox) (He,Ne,Ar,Kr,Xe,Radon)

Take transition as their groups..
First ....ScaY(sounds sky) Laac(from Lac)...or whole thing as skylark)
Second....Tizir half (Ti,Zr, Hf)
third....Vani tanned (V,niobium,Tantalum)(Vaani is an Ind name)
fourth...chromo tounged (Cr,Mo,W)
fifth....ManTech developed from Rhesus...(Mn, Technetium and Rhenium)
sixth....FeRuOs (can be rem as Ferry of Oz)
seventh.....Corho IR (Co,Rh, Ir)
eighth....Nick is my Pal and friendship is platinum( Ni, Pd, Pt)
ninth....C U a while AGgO (Cu, Ag, Au)
tenth....Zinc Cadmer (Zn, Cd, Hg)

Lanthanides....CerPras(shd sound like surprise) Neo Pro are Sams, Eu Gadolinium, Tubby Dyspose Holmer, Err...put Ytterbium between Thu and Lu
(Ce, Pr, Nb, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Thu, Yb, Lu)

Actinides....Tho-Pro, Urnaus, Neptune Pluto, America came before Curie, Berkley affects California, California came before Einstein and Fermi.

Answer 9

Chemistry is Boron (B).

Gatorade is better then water. H20! H20

I have a lot more but please contact me by email so I can help you more.

Answer 10

it is o3 i mean ozone,it oxidizes the color and convert it to a colorless material