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Periodic Table
Lanthanide Samples

Material Matters: The Past and Present of the Rare Earth Elements Essential to Our Future

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What’s in a Logo?

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Braving the Elements: Why Mendeleev Left Russian Soil for American Oil

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Medusa Nebula

Elements of Invention

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A periodic table of cupcakes

The Periodic Table at Play

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Osnovy Khimii

An Element of Order

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Dmitri Mendeleev at the Working Desk.

Mendeleev at Home

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Stanislao Cannizzaro at the age of 32, after a sketch by Demetrio Salazzaro. Courtesy Edgar Fahs Smith Collection, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Setting the Table

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Detail from The Periodic Printmaking Project

The Periodic Table Printmaking Project

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Yasser Arafat

Nuclear Option

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<em>Osnovy khimīi</em>
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William Ramsay.

William Ramsay
Historical Profile
An 1830 engraving of Sir Humphry Davy, by G. R. Newton, after a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830).

Humphry Davy
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Amedeo Avogadro. Edgar Fahs Smith Collection, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Amedeo Avogadro
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John Dalton, F.R.S., engraved by William Henry Worthington after an 1814 painting by William Allen, published June 25, 1823, in Manchester and London. Note the charts with Dalton’s atomic symbols lying on the table.

John Dalton
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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev as a young man.

Julius Lothar Meyer and Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
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Stanislao Cannizzaro. Edgar Fahs Smith Collection, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Stanislao Cannizzaro
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Blow Pipe Kit

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Making Modernity exhibition at the Museum at CHF.

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