Re: Periodic Table

From: Andrew Usher (k_over_hbarc_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/14/04 

Date: 13 Jul 2004 18:17:12 -0700

Fred Kasner <fkasner@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote in message news:<ccv2fq$8ii$7@chessie.cirr.com>...

> > I believe that the way to see truly these trends is to examine the
> > same reactions or compounds across different elements, both
> > horizontally and vertically. This is what seems to not be done, and is
> > likely to result in the student not seeing the great scheme.
>
> > Is it that chemistry professionals don't or can't see the beauty in
> > the periodic arrangement, and how it integrates all of chemistry? Or,
> > is it that the process of becoming a research chemist stamps out such
> > thinking? I'd like to know how this applies to other sciences, too,
> > such as physics.
>
> > Andrew Usher
>
> Similar kinds of analyses have been employed by chemists but usually only
> at the graduate level where the knowledge the students bring to the table
> is considerable. Henry Taube, then at the U. of Chicago did this in my
> graduate course in inorganic chemistry. It was so detailed that we got only
> through about 1/4 to 1/3 of the table in that course back in the '50's.
> FK

Now this sound interesting. If there was something similar available,
I think I'd buy it.

Andrew Usher

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