“Elementary, my dear Watson”*…
From Keith Enevoldsen, “The Periodic Table of the Elements, in Pictures and Words“: a periodic table with a drawing of one of the element’s main human uses or natural occurrences. Larger (and zoomable) version here.
There’s another, textual (and more informationally- rich) version here.
* widely attributed to, but never actuallly “said,” by Sherlock Holmes in any of Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories
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As we untangle taxonomy, we might send “eureka”-filled birthday greetings to Hieronymous Theodor Richter; he was born on this date in 1824. In 1863, he co-discovered indium (with Ferdinand Reich).
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