I need hints or tricks cuz my parents are giving me $100 if I can get it. My friends are also having a bet to see if I can do it, so I need to prove them wrong!!
2007-12-01 12:13:37 · 9 answers · asked by Stacey R 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
I guess I can just study it but I'll eventually get confused so I need ways 2 remember all the 112 elements.
2007-12-01 12:18:55 · update #1
I only need 2 know the elements and the order they're in.
2007-12-01 12:19:49 · update #2
make a song about it
2007-12-02 17:16:16 · answer #1 · answered by Lynda R 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best bet is to learn chemistry, but that takes longer. Then, if you get stuck recalling what's after sodium (column I), you think of something in column II. Calcium is too heavy, so the lighter one is Magnesium. For the symbols, it's just practice to remember that Pt is platinum but Pd is palladium. To remember that tin is Sn, it helps to know that toothpaste containing stannous fluoride used to come in tin tubes. The rest is practice. I never did learn the rare earth elements.
From your parents' point of view, this will be money very well spent! Good luck! It will actually be useful in the long term.
2007-12-01 21:55:10 · answer #2 · answered by Frank N 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I found this amazing paper. It is not just a huge mnemonic for the entire table, but it organizes them by both column and row.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/n4041407123843k4/?p=6b4ed3972fb64d43849e3eb728f5c2b4&pi=2
(Look in the right margin under text to open the "Entire Document".)
The mnemonic itself seems hard to memorize ... but it's a lot easier (and a lot funnier) than the table itself.
Good luck! I've never been able to do more than just the first few rows.
2007-12-01 21:48:07 · answer #3 · answered by secretsauce 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use flash cards and review that is the most affective method memorize the periodic table of elements.
2007-12-01 20:54:21 · answer #4 · answered by lipodemia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
im in 8th grade and i know them all!!! i do 35 at a time. its easy, like i say "nasty sodium" and that reminds me that sodium is NA. the numbers come fast, first memorize the symbols.
2007-12-01 20:18:24 · answer #5 · answered by thinkaboutit 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
make up things that will help you remember. an example would be "kay from Passions turned 19" hope this helps.
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2007-12-01 20:22:08 · answer #6 · answered by Missy O 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just find a program that workes for you like sports or anything basicly (sport teams, outs, strikes, balls (not a sex joke) ect...)
2007-12-01 20:30:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yikes!!! make flash cards
2007-12-01 20:20:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
study it!!!
2007-12-01 20:16:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋