How to memorize the Periodic Table of Elements?

Answer 1

WOW! That is one massive challenge. I actually can't give you an answer, but lots of luck!! :)

Answer 2

An alien birthday letter from a college student to a kid sister at home

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My (insane) way to memorize the Periodic Table of Elements from Hydrogen to Lanthanum

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Terms:

BCNOFNe = Kid sister

AlSiPS = BCNOFNe's boyfriend

FeCoNiCu, SeBrKr = Mutual friends

GaGeAs = Another university

MoTcRu = The "Motor Crew", a club

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H 16, He LiBe BCNOFNe! (H = "Happy", 16 = "16th Birthday" [skip 16 columns], He LiBe = "My lovely")

Na Mg AlSiPS? (Na Mg = "No more"; Specifically, he is asking if she's still going with her boyfriend)

ClArK CaSc TiV CrMn. (CaSc TiV = "Going steady with")

FeCoNiCu Zn GaGeAs. (Zn = "Is in")

SeBrKr RbSr YZr Nb. (RbSr YZr Nb = "Rubs her wiser nub"; i.e. Allusion to thinking more clearly)

MoTcRu RhPd Ag. (RhPd Ag = "Rapidly Aging"; Lit. = "Getting old, tired"; i.e. When something gets boring, as in "old news")

"Cd In Sn Sb Te IXe!" (A quotation, meaning "But in sin shall we all perish"; An admonishment to "keep her nose clean" and "fly straight".)

"Cs Ba La!" (A farewell, similar to "Ta, ta")

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Directions:

Envision a grid where you start writing elements left to right, top to bottom. Start writing elements in the upper left corner of the grid. Read and remember the terms. Take notice of the number 16 in the first line of the letter. That means to skip 16 blank columns on the first row of the table between Hydrogen and Helium. This means that you will have a maximum of 18 columns. The second and third rows have the same sized gap after their first two elements. The end of the second line is the end of the second row. All of the ends should line up on the last (18th) column. Any other knowledge of the periodic table (noble gasses, etc.) will help you fit it all together and remember the order. Try to remember the spelling of each word from how it sounds. The spelling will help you remember how each term breaks up in to the actual symbols of the elements. Try to learn the actual names of the elements from the their symbols (i.e. H = Hydrogen, Y = Yttrium).

Cheers!

Answer 3

Memorize one row at a time instead of trying to learn all of the elements at once. Try memorizing forwards before going backwards, and then going backwards makes more sense.

Answer 4

Tom's song was written in the late 1950s to the melody "I Am The Very Model of a Modern Major General" from Gilbert & Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance". It only includes the first 92 elements.

Answer 5

I suggest memorizing one column at a time rather than by row. This will help you later when you have to go back and memorize names of groups and charges. For example the group 1a is the alkali group with +1 charge, you will already know group 1A.

Answer 6

Tom Lehrer wrote a song I think called The Elements learn it...

Answer 7

If you're musically inclined, you might want to begin by listening to Tom Lehrer's song "The Elements".

Answer 8

Why do you want to spent time and resources in memorising something that you actually have in a piece of paper??
Better understand what to do with the information in it!!!

Answer 9

it is simple. start with the most common element to the rarest.