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Hoy termina 2019, Año Internacional de la #TablaPeriódica (#IYPT2019) y en que se cumple el 150 aniversario de su creación. En este hilo recopilo auténticas joyas de entre los miles de homenajes y versiones que se han hecho a lo largo del año desde el mundo de la #química.
Breve introducción:
En 1869 se conocían más de 60 elementos. Se intuía que escondían ciertas relaciones entre sí, pero las propuestas para ordenarlos tenían muchas lagunas.
Si en el instituto parecía complicado recordar una tabla periódica ordenada, imaginad con aquel desorden...
En 1869 Dmitri Mendeléyev publicó su tabla periódica. Ordenó los elementos por masa atómica haciendo dos genialidades:
-Saltarse esta regla cuando las propiedades de los elementos indicaban otra cosa.
- Creía que había elementos no descubiertos y dejó huecos en mitad de la tabla.
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Estem a l’acte d’inauguració de
l’Any Internacional de la Taula Periòdica dels Elements Químics! #inauguracióAITP2019 #aitp2019 #iypt2019 Image
“Els elements són com les lletres de l’alfabet: mitjançant unes regles de joc, es combinen i formen paraules, paràgrafs, llibres - molècules, compostos, minerals, éssers vius”, explica Pilar González, catedràtica de l’@UABBarcelona
#inauguracióAITP2019 #aitp2019 #IYPT2019 Image
Un quintet de l’ @OSValles interpreta una peça 🎻 d’Ernest Giralt, investigador 👨🏼‍🔬 de l’#IRBBarcelona, basada en la Taula Periòdica! ⚗️“Chemical Elements - A musical mosaic”
#inauguracióAITP2019 #aitp2019 #IYPT2019 ImageImageImage
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This year we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Periodic Table #IYPT2019. To mark the occasion we will be sharing stories and information about some of the elements crucial for the operation of our facility and central to the research done here. First up - Beryllium👇
Symbol Be, 4th element in the table - Beryllium is a strange element. It's a light and surprisingly unreactive metal with v. high melting point, and low thermal expansion. Also, it is transparent to X-rays. If it wasn't so toxic, it could be really useful for many things.
In fact, these strange properties make Beryllium very useful for @EuropeanXFEL. Here it is used to make windows for beamline components that have to be kept airtight, so X-rays pass through while other particles are kept out, and to make special lenses that focus X-rays.
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Over 10 years ago, @ChemistryWorld started a project with the @NakedScientists (especially @Meera_Senthi) to tell the story of each chemical #element: The Chemistry in its Element #podcast. Let's look back for #IYPT2019. Here's @brianclegg with #hydrogen:

chemistryworld.com/podcasts/hydro…
@ChemistryWorld @NakedScientists @Meera_Senthi @brianclegg The podcasts weren't published in atomic number order – we jumped around the #periodictable a bit – but here's @peterwothers getting grumpy about party balloons and the loss of the precious elemental resource: #Helium
chemistryworld.com/podcasts/heliu…

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#Lithium lubricates bearings & boosts batteries, but is also an important drug for depression and bipolar disorder. Nirvana sang about it in 1990 and, hot on their heels, Matt Wilkinson wrote a #podcast for @ChemistryWorld in 2009: chemistryworld.com/podcasts/lithi… #IYPT2019 #Mendeleev
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